AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon Bedrock Managed Agents powered by OpenAI, Q3 service availability updates, Kiro workflows, and more (October 5, 2026)
Last week, we announced a public preview of Amazon Bedrock Managed Agents powered by OpenAI, built…
Amazon S3 Tables now support all Apache Iceberg V3 data types
Amazon S3 Tables now support all data types in the Apache Iceberg V3 specification. You can…
Amazon S3 Vectors now supports metadata pre-filtering for higher recall on filtered searches
Today, we’re announcing metadata pre-filtering for Amazon S3 Vectors, which delivers higher recall on filtered queries…
Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL now supports direct querying of Apache Iceberg and Parquet data in your data lake
Today, we’re announcing a new capability for Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL that you can use to directly…
Celebrating Our Newest AWS Heroes – September 2026
Today, we’re excited to introduce the newest members of the AWS Heroes program. AWS Heroes are…
AWS Weekly Roundup: GPT-6 Sol and Luna, Claude Opus 5.5 on Amazon Bedrock, Strands harness, and more (September 28, 2026)
If there’s one theme that defined last week, it’s choice. The frontier models keep arriving, and…
AWS Weekly Roundup: AWS Builder Center mobile apps, Amazon Connect Talent GA, Amazon Corretto 27, and more (September 21, 2026)
Living in the Netherlands, I spend a fair amount of time on trains, and that is…
AWS reimagines the getting started experience
Amazon Web Services (AWS) started with a handful of foundational infrastructure services such as Amazon Simple…
AWS Weekly Roundup: OpenAI GPT-6 Astra on Amazon Bedrock, Amazon Quick desktop GA, Kiro for students, and more (September 14, 2026)
There’s a particular energy to mid-September in New York. Pumpkin spice lattes are flowing, temperatures are…
AWS Weekly Roundup: Claude Fable 5.1 on AWS, Amazon Linux 2027 preview, AWS Certified AI Business Strategist, and more (September 7, 2026)
Last week, Claude Fable 5.1 became available on AWS. According to Anthropic, Claude Fable 5.1 delivers…
Amazon EC2 R9g and R9gd instances powered by AWS Graviton5 processors are now generally available
Today, Amazon EC2 R9g and R9gd instances are generally available, powered by AWS Graviton5 processors. R9g…
AWS Weekly Roundup: Welcome DuckLabs to the team, Agentic Resource Discovery (ARD), and more (August 31, 2026)
The news that interested me the most last week was the DuckLabs acquisition. AWS has signed…