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Amazon Aurora serverless now supports up to 384 ACUs (768 GiB memory), a 50% increase enabling larger workloads while maintaining automatic scaling to zero.

AWS Transform MCP server integrates with GitHub Copilot to enable AI-driven code transformations, demonstrated through migrating .NET Azure Functions to AWS Lambda using the Lambda Annotations Framework.

AWS re:Invent 2026 (Nov 30 – Dec 4 in Las Vegas) offers AWS Partners and Marketplace Sellers comprehensive sessions, networking opportunities, and resources to build AI-ready practices and drive business growth.

Amazon released October 2026 patch updates for Amazon Corretto across multiple LTS and Feature Release versions of OpenJDK.

AWS Elemental MediaConnect Router now supports endpoint connection management through a new registry for managing external connections and cross-account endpoint sharing.

AWS has been named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Contact Center as a Service for the fourth consecutive year, recognizing Amazon Connect's AI-powered customer experience capabilities.

AWS becomes the first cloud service provider in Canada to complete the Cloud High (PBHH) security assessment with 172 services and features in scope.

AWS opens registration for updated Developer Associate (DVA-C03) and Solutions Architect Professional (SAP-C03) certification exams reflecting AI-era cloud roles.

This article demonstrates how to use Kiro, an agentic AI tool, to automate the conversion of raw training material into SCORM-compliant learning management system packages.

This article demonstrates how to build document-investigation agents using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore and Amazon S3 Files, enabling agents to autonomously discover and analyze related documents through a shared file system.

Manta Marine Technologies uses AWS to deliver vessel-specific voyage optimization through machine learning models trained on individual ship operational history, reducing fuel consumption by 2-4 percent.

Amazon IVS Low-Latency Streaming now supports failover slates, displaying animated images to viewers when a broadcaster's stream is interrupted, enabling automatic resumption without player refresh.

Anchorage Digital and Turnkey use AWS Nitro Enclaves to run VisualSign Parser, enabling cryptographically verifiable transaction parsing that prevents crypto phishing attacks through attestation-backed proof.

AWS announces SOCI indexing for SageMaker AI training and processing jobs, enabling lazy-loaded container images that start in seconds instead of minutes, reducing startup overhead by up to 38x.

This article explores the unglamorous daily work of three AWS security professionals—Brandon Caldwell in application security, Kurt Heath in penetration testing, and Seth Jeacopello in code review—highlighting the human skills, patience, and discipline that define real cybersecurity careers.

Property Finder identified and fixed evaluation bias in their vision AI models, then used evolutionary prompt optimization on Amazon Bedrock to achieve 47% accuracy improvement and 86% cost reduction.

Exowatt uses Amazon SageMaker AI serverless model customization to build fine-tuned models that outperform frontier models on specific tasks at up to 49× lower cost for edge and cloud deployment.

AWS provides guidance on preparing for proposed HIPAA Security Rule updates using AWS Backup, the open-source HIPAA Assistant tool, and a six-step compliance roadmap.

A practical guide for rural and remote government agencies to build resilient AWS connectivity using diverse transport patterns and access methods.

Amazon ECR now supports replication backfill to replicate existing container images to configured destinations with a single API call.

This article explores architecture patterns for building decentralized perpetual futures exchanges on AWS, comparing hybrid (off-chain matching + on-chain settlement) and fully on-chain approaches with their respective components and trade-offs.

This article provides a comprehensive guide to deploying Blazor Server applications on Amazon ECS with AWS Fargate, addressing session affinity, WebSocket connectivity, and graceful task draining requirements.

Spec-driven development for SAP ABAP uses written specifications before code generation to preserve development decisions and improve code maintainability with AWS Coding Plugin for SAP ABAP.

AWS Glue Data Catalog now supports OAuth 2.0 bearer token authentication for Apache Iceberg REST Catalog APIs, enabling federated partner access without distributing AWS credentials.

Infosys and Corellium built an AI-powered firmware validation pipeline on AWS using virtual ECUs and Amazon Bedrock Agents to eliminate hardware bottlenecks in automotive software development.

AWS KMS now supports ML-KEM, a NIST post-quantum cryptography standard for secure key encapsulation that protects against future quantum computing threats.

Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio now supports light mode for IDC-based domains, allowing users to choose between dark, light, or device-matched visual themes.

Amazon Connect Customer now enables validation of flow action outcomes during testing and simulation, allowing users to verify returned data and pinpoint failures faster.

AWS EC2 Auto Scaling now supports Launch Before Terminate at the account level, enabling instances to be replaced while maintaining full capacity across all Auto Scaling groups.

AWS Networking and Content Delivery team invites attendees to re:Invent 2026 (November 30 - December 4) in Las Vegas for keynotes, sessions, workshops, and hands-on experiences covering cloud networking innovations and agentic workloads.

Amazon RDS now supports the latest Cumulative Updates and GDR updates for Microsoft SQL Server 2017, 2019, 2022, and 2025.

AWS announces general availability of OpenAI GPT-6.1 Terra on Amazon Bedrock, offering balanced capability, speed, and cost efficiency with 50% lower pricing than comparable models.

Amazon WorkSpaces Core Managed Instances now supports the ModifyVolume API to change volume size, type, IOPS, and throughput without instance restart.

AWS IAM Identity Center now supports cross-Region trusted identity propagation, allowing user identities to travel with requests across AWS Regions while maintaining fine-grained access control and audit capabilities.

This article provides a comprehensive guide for migrating production SMS traffic from toll-free numbers or 10DLC to short codes using AWS End User Messaging, covering opt-out list migration, keyword configuration, carrier behavior, and validation strategies.

AWS re:Invent 2026 features extensive AIOps sessions covering AI agent-driven operations, incident investigation with AWS DevOps Agent, custom agent building, and safe remediation practices.

This article demonstrates a fleet-wide computer vision model lifecycle management system using SageMaker SDK v3, featuring dual-branch training pipelines with quality gates, Neo compilation, and Step Functions orchestration for edge deployment.

Amazon S3 annotations enable attaching governance context directly to objects, allowing classification, retention policies, and PII information to travel with data across copies and replication.

This article demonstrates how to measure developer platform success on Amazon EKS using DORA metrics and open source tools like Argo CD, Argo Rollouts, and Apache DevLake.

AWS Resilience Hub now offers recommended resilience testing with pre-configured fault injection experiments powered by AWS FIS to validate application recovery from failures.

This article explains how to use prompt caching with OpenAI models on Amazon Bedrock to reduce costs and improve efficiency for AI agents by reusing cached prompts across multiple turns.

AWS DevOps Agent traces failures across Terraform state boundaries by correlating alarms, mapping dependencies, and analyzing CloudTrail to identify root causes that span multiple infrastructure stacks.

The New York Times reduced Oracle-to-Aurora PostgreSQL migration time from 18 to 5 months using AI-powered tools on Amazon Bedrock combined with AWS DMS, achieving zero revenue impact at cutover.

Vestiaire Collective achieved near-zero downtime RDS for MariaDB upgrades using Amazon RDS Blue/Green Deployments, completing two major version upgrades in 94 seconds and 7 seconds respectively.

This article demonstrates building enterprise agentic retrieval on Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Bases with AWS CDK, featuring multi-KB semantic routing, a reasoning agent, and seven layers of observability with on-demand and continuous evaluation.

Amazon Connect Customer now measures customer interaction outcomes including satisfaction, churn risk, purchases, and self-service resolution to track business success metrics.

Amazon Connect Customer now enables viewing metrics segmented by customer lifetime value and repeat-caller status to identify and address underperforming customer groups.

AWS re:Invent 2026 Cloud Operations track features 25 sessions on modernizing monitoring and observability for AI agents and applications using CloudWatch and OpenTelemetry.

This article presents a reference architecture for building a centralized digital assets exchange on AWS, detailing organizational structure, high-availability design, and component choices optimized for latency and security.

AWS Weekly Roundup covering Amazon Polly's generative engine upgrade, AWS Continuum vulnerability management, Amazon ECS Gateway, TorchNeuron for Trainium, and other AI and infrastructure launches.