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- Amazon EC2 High Memory U7i instances now available in AWS Europe (Paris) region rss:aws-whats-new 2026-05-14 score 6.65
Amazon EC2 High Memory U7i-12TB instances (u7i-12tb.224xlarge) and U7in-16TB instances (u7in-16tb.224xlarge) are now available in the AWS Europe (Paris) region. U7i instances are part of the AWS 7th generation and are powered by custom fourth-generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors (Sapphire Rapids). U7i instances offer up to 45% better price performance over existing U-1 instances. U7i-12TB instances offer 12 TiB of DDR5 memory, U7in-16TB instances offer 16 TiB of DDR5 memory, enabling custom
- AWS Marketplace introduces Tax management portal for sellers rss:aws-whats-new 2026-05-07 score 6.25
AWS Marketplace launches a new Tax management portal that provides sellers a streamlined self-service process to view and download invoices, eliminating the need to request invoices through support channels. Tax management portal integrates the invoice management directly into the AWS Partner Central console, providing centralized access to both seller listing fee invoices and invoices issued to buyers in applicable regions. The portal streamlines invoice retrieval and record-keeping for sellers
- AWS Capabilities by Region now supports availability notifications rss:aws-whats-new 2026-05-07 score 5.49
Today, AWS announces availability notifications for AWS Capabilities by Region in AWS Builder Center, a new subscription-based system that automatically alerts builders when an AWS service(s) and/or features(s) become available in their target Regions. Availability notifications make it easy for builders to track availability of 1,500+ services and features across 37 AWS Regions, accelerating infrastructure planning and deployment decisions. With availability notifications, builders can subscrib
- Amazon Aurora DSQL now supports change data capture (Preview) rss:aws-whats-new 2026-05-14 score 5.39
Amazon Aurora DSQL introduces support for change data capture (CDC) in preview, enabling you to stream real-time database changes directly to Amazon Kinesis Data Streams. This fully managed capability removes the need to build or maintain custom streaming pipelines, making it easier to build event-driven applications, power real-time analytics pipelines, and synchronize data across systems. Aurora DSQL automatically captures the result of insert, update, and delete operations as change events. Y
- Reference stack outputs across accounts and Regions with AWS CloudFormation and CDK rss:aws-whats-new 2026-05-14 score 5.38
AWS CloudFormation now supports a new intrinsic function, Fn::GetStackOutput , that enables you to reference stack outputs across AWS accounts and Regions directly within your CloudFormation templates and CDK applications. This new capability simplifies the provisioning and management of multi-account and multi-Region workloads in CloudFormation and CDK, and eliminates deployment deadlocks when restructuring cross-stack dependencies in CDK apps. When managing multi-account AWS environments, team
- Amazon Redshift launches RG instances powered by AWS Graviton rss:aws-whats-new 2026-05-12 score 5.16
Amazon Redshift announces the general availability of RG instances , a new generation of provisioned cluster nodes powered by AWS Graviton processors that deliver better performance, running data warehouse and data lake workloads up to 2.4x as fast as previous generation RA3 instances, at 30% lower price per vCPU. RG instances include Redshift's custom-built vectorized data lake query engine that processes Apache Iceberg and Parquet data on your cluster nodes — enabling you to run SQL analytics
- ENA Express for Amazon EC2 instances now supports traffic between Availability Zones rss:aws-whats-new 2026-05-11 score 5.08
Elastic Network Adapter (ENA) Express now supports traffic between Amazon EC2 instances in different Availability Zones within a Region, delivering up to 25 Gbps single-flow bandwidth. ENA Express is a networking feature that uses the AWS Scalable Reliable Datagram (SRD) protocol to improve network performance. SRD is a reliable network protocol that delivers performance improvements through advanced congestion control and multi-pathing. Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) io2 Block Express and Ela
- Announcing Region Expansion of P4de instances on SageMaker Studio notebooks rss:aws-whats-new 2026-05-11 score 5.08
We are pleased to announce general availability of Amazon EC2 P4de instances in Asia Pacific (Tokyo, Singapore) and Europe (Frankfurt) on SageMaker Studio notebooks. Amazon EC2 P4de instances are powered by 8 NVIDIA A100 GPUs with 80GB high-performance HBM2e GPU memory, 2X higher than the GPUs in our current P4d instances. The new P4de instances provide a total of 640GB of GPU memory, which provide up to 60% better ML training performance along with 20% lower cost to train when compared to P4d i
- AWS announces AWS Interconnect - multicloud connectivity with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure in preview rss:aws-whats-new 2026-05-15 score 4.74
AWS announces the public preview of AWS Interconnect — multicloud with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). Customers have been adopting multicloud strategies while migrating more applications to the cloud. They do so for many reasons including interoperability requirements, the freedom to choose technology that best suits their needs, and the ability to build and deploy applications on any environment with greater ease and speed. Previously, when interconnecting workloads across multiple cloud se
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AWS Elemental MediaTailor now supports monetization functions, a new capability that lets customers customize how MediaTailor builds ad decision server (ADS) requests and manages session data during ad-personalized playback. With monetization functions, customers can call external APIs and run inline data transformations at defined points in the playback session — eliminating the need to build and operate middleware between the player and the ADS. Common use cases include resolving hashed email
- Amazon EC2 M8gn and M8gb instances are now available in AWS Europe (Ireland) region rss:aws-whats-new 2026-05-07 score 4.74
Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) M8gn and M8gb instances are available in the AWS Europe (Ireland) region. These instances are powered by AWS Graviton4 processors to deliver up to 30% better compute performance than AWS Graviton3 processors, and feature the latest 6th generation AWS Nitro Cards. M8gn instances offer up to 600 Gbps network bandwidth, the highest network bandwidth among network optimized EC2 instances. M8gb offer up to 300 Gbps of EBS bandwidth to provide
- Amazon EC2 P6-B200 instances are now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region rss:aws-whats-new 2026-05-06 score 4.68
Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) P6-B200 instances accelerated by NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs are available in AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region. These instances offer up to 2x performance compared to P5en instances for AI training and inference. P6-B200 instances feature 8 Blackwell GPUs with 1440 GB of high-bandwidth GPU memory and a 60% increase in GPU memory bandwidth compared to P5en, 5th Generation Intel Xeon processors (Emerald Rapids), and up to 3.2 terabits per second of
- AWS Transfer Family web apps are now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (New Zealand) Region rss:aws-whats-new 2026-05-06 score 4.65
Customers in the Asia Pacific (New Zealand) Region can now use AWS Transfer Family web apps to provide their workforce with a fully managed, branded portal for browsing, uploading, and downloading data in Amazon S3 through a web browser. AWS Transfer Family web apps provide a simple interface for accessing your data in Amazon S3 through a web browser. With Transfer Family web apps, you can provide your workforce with a fully managed, branded, and secure portal for your end users to browse, uploa
- ARC Region switch adds Lambda event source mapping execution block for event handling during failover rss:aws-whats-new 2026-05-14 score 4.64
Amazon Application Recovery Controller (ARC) Region Switch helps customers orchestrate the failover of their multi-Region applications to achieve a bounded recovery time in the event of a Regional impairment. Today, we are announcing the Lambda event source mapping execution block, which automates the coordinated failover of event streams for multi-Region workloads. Customers running event-driven architectures use Lambda functions with event source mappings to process event streams from Kinesis,
- Amazon EC2 X8aedz instances are now available in Europe (Ireland) region rss:aws-whats-new 2026-05-14 score 4.63
Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) X8aedz instances are available in Europe (Ireland) region. These instances are powered by 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors (formerly code named Turin). These instances offer the highest maximum CPU frequency, 5GHz in the cloud. X8aedz instances are built using the latest sixth generation AWS Nitro Cards and are ideal for electronic design automation (EDA) workloads such as physical layout and physical verification jobs, and relational database
- Amazon Connect Customer launches permission for agents to view only their own performance evaluations rss:aws-whats-new 2026-05-14 score 4.63
Amazon Connect Customer now supports a permission that gives agents access to their own performance evaluations in the Connect UI, without exposing other agents' evaluations, so they can review feedback to improve their performance. With this permission, agents can search for contacts where they have received an evaluation, view their evaluations alongside call recordings and transcripts, and submit an acknowledgment after reviewing. Agents can be granted access to view their entire department's
- Modernize your workflows: Amazon WorkSpaces now gives AI agents their own desktop (preview) rss:aws-news-blog 2026-05-05 score 4.61
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.
- AWS Organizations now supports higher quotas for service control policies (SCPs) rss:aws-whats-new 2026-05-15 score 4.49
AWS Organizations now supports higher quotas for service control policies (SCPs). The maximum number of SCPs that can be attached to a single node (root, OU, or account) has increased from 5 to 10, and the maximum SCP size has increased from 5,120 to 10,240 characters. With these higher quotas, you can write SCPs with finer-grained permissions and conditions, and attach more SCPs per node to build more comprehensive security controls across your organization. These higher quotas are available in
- Announcing Region Expansion of P5.48xl instances on SageMaker Studio notebooks rss:aws-whats-new 2026-05-12 score 4.36
We are pleased to announce general availability of Amazon EC2 P5.48xl instances in the AWS US West (San Francisco), Asia Pacific (Tokyo, Mumbai, Sydney, Jakarta) and Europe (London, Stockholm) regions on SageMaker Studio notebooks. Amazon EC2 P5.48xl instances are powered by NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs and deliver high performance in Amazon EC2 for deep learning (DL) and high performance computing (HPC) applications. They help you accelerate your time to solution by up to 4x compared to previou
- Announcing Region Expansion of G6 instances on SageMaker Notebook Instances rss:aws-whats-new 2026-05-12 score 4.36
We are pleased to announce general availability of Amazon EC2 G6 instances in Asia Pacific (Tokyo, Mumbai, Sydney) and Europe (London, Paris, Frankfurt, Stockholm, Zurich) on SageMaker notebook instances. Amazon EC2 G6 instances are powered by up to 8 NVIDIA L4 Tensor Core GPUs with 24 GB of memory per GPU and third generation AMD EPYC processors. G6 instances offer 2x better performance for deep learning inference compared to EC2 G4dn instances. Customers can use G6 instances to interactively t
- Announcing Region Expansion of P6-B200 instances on SageMaker Studio notebooks rss:aws-whats-new 2026-05-11 score 4.34
We are pleased to announce general availability of Amazon EC2 P6-B200 instances in AWS US East (N. Virginia) on SageMaker Studio notebooks. Amazon EC2 P6-B200 instances are powered by 8 NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs with 1440 GB of high-bandwidth GPU memory and 5th Generation Intel Xeon processors (Emerald Rapids). These instances deliver up to 2x better performance compared to P5en instances for AI training. Customers can use P6-B200 instances to interactively develop and fine-tune large foundation mod
- Announcing Region Expansion of G6e instances on SageMaker Studio notebooks rss:aws-whats-new 2026-05-11 score 4.33
We are pleased to announce general availability of Amazon EC2 G6e instances in the Middle East (Dubai), Asia Pacific (Tokyo, Seoul) and Europe (Frankfurt, Stockholm, Spain) on SageMaker Studio notebooks. Amazon EC2 G6e instances are powered by up to 8 NVIDIA L40s Tensor Core GPUs with 48 GB of memory per GPU and third generation AMD EPYC processors. G6e instances deliver up to 2.5x better performance compared to EC2 G5 instances. Customers can use G6e instances to interactively test model deploy
- Announcing Region Expansion of G6 instances on SageMaker Studio notebooks rss:aws-whats-new 2026-05-11 score 4.33
We are pleased to announce general availability of Amazon EC2 G6 instances in the Middle East (Dubai) and Asia Pacific (Malaysia) on SageMaker Studio notebooks. Amazon EC2 G6 instances are powered by up to 8 NVIDIA L4 Tensor Core GPUs with 24 GB of memory per GPU and third generation AMD EPYC processors. G6 instances offer 2x better performance for deep learning inference compared to EC2 G4dn instances. Customers can use G6 instances to interactively test model deployment and for interactive mod
- Amazon Aurora DSQL is now available in five additional AWS Regions rss:aws-whats-new 2026-05-11 score 4.33
Amazon Aurora DSQL single-Region clusters are now available in Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Europe (Stockholm), and South America (Sao Paulo). Aurora DSQL is the fastest serverless, distributed SQL database that enables you to build always available applications with virtually unlimited scalability, the highest availability, and zero infrastructure management. It is designed to make scaling and resilience effortless for your applications and offers t
- Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL announces Extended Support minor versions 11.22-rds.20260224, 12.22-rds.20260224, and 13.23-rds.20260224 rss:aws-whats-new 2026-05-15 score 4.00
Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for PostgreSQL announces Amazon RDS Extended Support minor versions 11.22-rds.20260224, 12.22-rds.20260224, and 13.23-rds.20260224. We recommend that you upgrade to these versions to fix known security vulnerabilities and bugs in prior versions of PostgreSQL. Amazon RDS Extended Support provides up to three additional years of critical security and bug fixes beyond a major version's end of standard support date, giving you more time to upgrade to a new ma
- Amazon Managed Grafana now supports in-place upgrade to Grafana version 12.4 rss:aws-whats-new 2026-05-15 score 4.00
Amazon Managed Grafana now supports in-place upgrade from Grafana version 10.4 to 12.4. You can upgrade with just a few clicks from the AWS Console or via AWS SDK or AWS CLI. Upgrading to version 12.4 brings native Grafana Scenes-powered dashboards for faster rendering and queryless Drilldown apps for point-and-click exploration of Prometheus metrics, Loki logs, Tempo traces, and Pyroscope profiles. Amazon CloudWatch plugin enhancements simplify log analysis with PPL/SQL query support, broaden v
- Amazon EC2 G7e instances now available in Europe (London) region rss:aws-whats-new 2026-05-07 score 3.99
Starting today, Amazon EC2 G7e instances accelerated by NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs are now available in Europe (London) region. G7e instances offer up to 2.3x inference performance compared to G6e. Customers can use G7e instances to deploy large language models (LLMs), agentic AI models, multimodal generative AI models, and physical AI models. G7e instances offer the highest performance for spatial computing workloads as well as workloads that require both graphics and AI
- Agents that transact: Amazon Bedrock AgentCore now includes Payments (preview) rss:aws-whats-new 2026-05-07 score 3.98
Today, Amazon Bedrock AgentCore announces the preview of AgentCore payments, enabling AI agents to autonomously access and pay for APIs, MCP servers, web content, and other agents. Built in partnership with Coinbase and Stripe, AgentCore payments is the first managed payment capabilities purpose-built for autonomous agents, handling the full payment lifecycle from wallet authentication through transaction execution to spending governance and observability. As AI agents become more capable and se
- Amazon EC2 P6-B300 instances are now available in the US East (N. Virginia) Region rss:aws-whats-new 2026-05-06 score 3.93
Starting today, Amazon Elastic Cloud Compute (Amazon EC2) P6-B300 instances are available in the US East (N. Virginia) Region. P6-B300 instances provide 8xNVIDIA Blackwell Ultra GPUs with 2.1 TB high bandwidth GPU memory, 6.4 Tbps EFA networking, 300 Gbps dedicated ENA throughput, and 4 TB of system memory. P6-B300 instances deliver 2x networking bandwidth, 1.5x GPU memory size, and 1.5x GPU TFLOPS (at FP4, without sparsity) compared to P6-B200 instances, making them well suited to train and dep
- Amazon EventBridge Scheduler adds 619 new SDK API actions, including Lambda Managed Instances rss:aws-whats-new 2026-05-12 score 3.67
Amazon EventBridge Scheduler expands its AWS SDK integrations with 13 additional services and 619 new API actions across new and existing AWS services, including AWS Lambda Managed Instances. You can now schedule direct invocations of a broader set of AWS services without writing custom integration code. EventBridge Scheduler is a serverless scheduler that allows you to create, run, and manage billions of scheduled events and tasks across more than 270 AWS services, without provisioning or manag
- Amazon SageMaker Feature Store now supports SageMaker Python SDK V3 rss:aws-whats-new 2026-05-12 score 3.67
Amazon SageMaker Feature Store now supports the SageMaker Python SDK v3, including new capabilities for Lake Formation access controls and Apache Iceberg table properties configuration. Feature Store is a fully managed repository to store, share, and manage features for machine learning models. Data scientists can now use the modern, modular SDK v3 interfaces to manage feature groups with fine-grained access control and optimized offline storage. Data scientists can use the SageMaker Python SDK
- Enhancing network observability with new AWS Outposts racks LAG metrics rss:aws-compute-blog 2026-04-30 score 3.60
When you deploy AWS Outposts racks, you can run AWS infrastructure and services in on-premises locations. Maintaining seamless connectivity, both to the AWS Region and your on-premises network, is fundamental to delivering consistent, uninterrupted service to your applications. Implementing an observability strategy that uses available network metrics is key to understanding the health of this […]
- Customize your AWS Management Console experience with visual settings including account color, region and service visibility rss:aws-news-blog 2026-03-26 score 3.30
AWS introduces visual customization capability in AWS Management Console that enables selective display of relevant AWS Regions and services for your team members. By hiding unused Regions and services, you can reduce cognitive load and eliminate unnecessary clicks and scrolling, helping you focus better and work faster.
- Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL supports minor versions 18.4, 17.10, 16.14, 15.18, and 14.23 rss:aws-whats-new 2026-05-14 score 3.13
Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for PostgreSQL now supports the latest minor versions 18.4, 17.10, 16.14, 15.18, and 14.23. We recommend that you upgrade to the latest minor versions to fix known security vulnerabilities in prior versions of PostgreSQL, and to benefit from the bug fixes and improvements added by the PostgreSQL community. This release also adds postgis_topology support in PostGIS 3.6.3 for PostgreSQL 18, enabling you to model and query topological relationships such as n
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At the "What's Next with AWS" 2026 event, AWS launched Amazon Quick—an AI assistant for work with a desktop app and expanded integrations—and expanded Amazon Connect into four agentic AI solutions for supply chain, hiring, customer experience, and healthcare. AWS also expended its partnership with OpenAI, bringing models like GPT-5.5, Codex, and Managed Agents to Amazon Bedrock in limited preview.
- Cross-Region disaster recovery for Amazon EKS using AWS Backup rss:aws-containers-blog 2026-05-06 score 2.92
In this post, we walk you through a complete cross-Region DR implementation for Amazon EKS using AWS Backup. We deploy a stateful retail store application in a source Region, back it up, copy the backup to a DR Region, and restore the full application, including its persistent data, to a pre-provisioned cluster in the secondary Region. By the end of this walkthrough, you will have a fully functional DR environment with your application running in the secondary Region with all stateful data intac
- Introducing Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.7 model in Amazon Bedrock rss:aws-news-blog 2026-04-16 score 2.82
AWS launches Claude Opus 4.7 in Amazon Bedrock, Anthropic's most intelligent Opus model for advancing performance across coding, long-running agents, and professional work. Claude Opus 4.7 is powered by Amazon Bedrock's next generation inference engine, purpose-built for generative AI inferencing and fine-tuning workloads.
- Amazon Route 53 Domains adds support for 34 new Top Level Domains including .app, .dev, and .health. rss:aws-whats-new 2026-05-11 score 2.81
Amazon Route 53 Domains now supports registration and management of 34 new top-level domains (TLDs), including .app, .dev, .art, .forum, .health, and .realty. This expansion enhances Route 53's domain registration and DNS management capabilities by offering customers industry-specific, technology-focused, and purpose-driven domain name options directly through AWS, enabling businesses and individuals to better establish their online presence. The new TLDs cater to diverse use cases across multip
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Today, AWS announced the general availability of Claude Platform on AWS, a new service that gives customers direct access to Anthropic's native Claude Platform experience through their existing AWS account. AWS is the first cloud provider to offer access to the native Claude Platform experience. Developers and organizations now have the choice to access Anthropic's native Claude Platform experience, including APIs, console, and early-access beta features, directly through their existing AWS acco
- AWS Weekly Roundup: Claude Mythos Preview in Amazon Bedrock, AWS Agent Registry, and more (April 13, 2026) rss:aws-news-blog 2026-04-13 score 2.78
In my last Week in Review post, I mentioned how much time I’ve been spending on AI-Driven Development Lifecycle (AI-DLC) workshops with customers this year. A common theme in those sessions is the need for better cost visibility. Teams are moving fast with AI, but as they go from experimenting to full production, finance and […]
- Amazon CloudFront Premium flat-rate plan now supports configurable usage allowances rss:aws-whats-new 2026-05-12 score 2.66
Previously, the Amazon CloudFront Premium flat-rate plan supported a single usage allowance, and customers who outgrew it needed to contact us to discuss custom pricing options. Now, the Premium plan offers a range of self-service monthly usage levels ranging from 500 million to 6 billion requests and 50 TB to 600 TB, so customers can scale within the plan as their applications grow. Enterprises and mid-sized businesses whose baseline traffic previously made them ineligible for flat-rate plans c
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Stay current with the latest serverless innovations that can improve your applications. In this 32nd quarterly recap, discover the most impactful AWS serverless launches, features, and resources from Q1 2026 that you might have missed. In case you missed our last ICYMI, check out what happened in Q4 2025. 2026 Q1 calendar Serverless with Mama […]
- AWS HealthOmics now supports caching of cancelled workflow runs rss:aws-whats-new 2026-05-11 score 2.58
AWS HealthOmics now supports caching completed task outputs of cancelled runs, enabling customers to reuse outputs and avoid recomputing previously completed tasks. When caching is enabled and a run is cancelled, HealthOmics automatically stores completed task outputs in the customer’s S3 bucket, allowing customers to restart runs from the point of cancellation. AWS HealthOmics is a HIPAA-eligible service that helps healthcare and life sciences customers accelerate scientific breakthroughs at sc
- AWS Service Catalog is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (New Zealand) and Canada West (Calgary) regions rss:aws-whats-new 2026-05-08 score 2.56
AWS Service Catalog is now available to customers in two additional AWS Regions: Asia Pacific (New Zealand) and Canada West (Calgary). AWS Service Catalog enables customers to create, govern, and distribute a catalog of approved Infrastructure as Code (IaC) products for deployment on AWS. Administrators define products using AWS CloudFormation or other IaC tools such as Terraform. A product is a set of AWS resources that can range from a single compute instance to a fully configured multi-tier a
- Amazon EMR Serverless is now available in additional AWS Regions rss:aws-whats-new 2026-05-15 score 2.52
Amazon EMR Serverless is now generally available in six additional AWS Regions - Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), Asia Pacific (Malaysia), Asia Pacific (New Zealand), Asia Pacific (Taipei), Asia Pacific (Thailand), and Mexico (Central). Amazon EMR Serverless is a deployment option in Amazon EMR that makes it simple and cost effective for data engineers and analysts to run petabyte-scale data analytics in the cloud. With EMR Serverless, you can run your Apache Spark and Apache Hive applications without
- AWS Elastic Beanstalk now supports TLS listeners for Network Load Balancers rss:aws-whats-new 2026-05-06 score 2.42
AWS Elastic Beanstalk now supports TLS listeners for environments configured with a Network Load Balancer. You can configure a TLS listener with an SSL certificate and security policy, allowing the load balancer to handle secure connections and forward decrypted traffic to your instances. You can configure TLS listeners through the Elastic Beanstalk console or CLI. Previously, Elastic Beanstalk did not support TLS listeners for NLB environments as a managed configuration option. With this launch
- Amazon CloudFront announces support for OCSP Revocation for Mutual TLS (Viewer) rss:aws-whats-new 2026-05-14 score 2.41
Amazon CloudFront now supports Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP) revocation checking for viewer mTLS, enabling you to validate client certificate revocation status in real time during connection establishment. This enables customers using mutual TLS (mTLS) on CloudFront to verify that client certificates haven't been revoked before accepting connections—a common requirement for regulated industries and zero-trust architectures. Previously, customers implemented certificate revocation usi
- Amazon Bedrock Introduces Advanced Prompt Optimization and Migration Tool rss:aws-whats-new 2026-05-14 score 2.40
Customers spend days to weeks optimizing prompts and evaluating responses when they want to migrate to a new model or just get better performance out of their current model. They struggle with changing their prompts quickly and then testing them to prevent regressions and improve on underperforming tasks. These situations call for the same tool – a prompt optimizer with built-in evaluations. Today, Amazon Bedrock introduces Advanced Prompt Optimization, a new tool that allows customers to optimi
- AWS Directory Service expands directory security settings with STIG-aligned controls for Managed AD rss:aws-whats-new 2026-05-06 score 2.39
AWS Directory Service for Microsoft Active Directory (AWS Managed Microsoft AD) now has expanded its security settings to include STIG-aligned configurations for high-impact security areas. These new security settings help customers meet their organizations requirements for directory-level security and compliance configurations. For regulated or security-focused customers, these settings align with the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIG) for
- SageMaker AI now supports serverless model customization for Qwen3.6 rss:aws-whats-new 2026-05-14 score 2.39
Amazon SageMaker AI now supports serverless model customization for Qwen3.6 27B parameter model using supervised fine-tuning (SFT) and reinforcement fine-tuning (RFT). Qwen3.6 is a popular open-weight model family from Alibaba Cloud. This launch is an addition to our support for fine-tuning Qwen3.5 and other popular models. Before this launch, you could deploy Qwen3.6 base model on SageMaker AI and now, you can also adapt it to your specific domains and workflows. Model customization enables you