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AWS Weekly Roundup: AWS Transform at 1 year, Claude Platform on AWS, EC2 M3 Ultra Mac instances, and more (May 18, 2026)
Just 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 scal
Amazon Bedrock introduces new advanced prompt optimization and migration tool
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.
Amazon Redshift introduces AWS Graviton-based RG instances with an integrated data lake query engine
Amazon Redshift RG instances, powered by AWS Graviton, run data warehouse and data lake workloads up to 2.4x as fast as RA3 instances at 30% lower price per vCPU. Its integrated data lake query engine supports open table formats such as Apache Iceberg.
AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon Bedrock AgentCore payments, Agent Toolkit for AWS, and more (May 11, 2026)
My most exciting news of last week: Amazon Bedrock AgentCore previewed the first managed payment capabilities enabling AI agents to autonomously access and pay for APIs, MCP servers, web content, and other agents. Built in partnership with Coinbase and Stripe, it removes the undifferentiated heavy l
The AWS MCP Server is now generally available
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 th
Modernize your workflows: Amazon WorkSpaces now gives AI agents their own desktop (preview)
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 Weekly Roundup: What’s Next with AWS 2026, Amazon Quick, OpenAI partnership, and more (May 4, 2026)
Last week, I took some time off in York, England, often described as the most haunted city in the country. I wandered through the ruins of abbeys that have stood for nearly a thousand years, walked along medieval walls, and spent an evening on a ghost tour hearing stories passed down through centuri
Top announcements of the What’s Next with AWS, 2026
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 O
AWS Weekly Roundup: Anthropic & Meta partnership, AWS Lambda S3 Files, Amazon Bedrock AgentCore CLI, and more (April 27, 2026)
Late March took me to Seattle for the Specialist Tech Conference, one of the most energizing gatherings of AWS specialists from around the world. It was an incredible opportunity to connect with peers, exchange experiences, and go deep on the latest advancements in Generative AI and Amazon Bedrock —
AWS Weekly Roundup: Claude Opus 4.7 in Amazon Bedrock, AWS Interconnect GA, and more (April 20, 2026)
Claude Opus 4.7 arrives in Amazon Bedrock with improved agentic coding and a 1M token context window. AWS Interconnect reaches general availability with multicloud private connectivity and a new last-mile option. Plus, post-quantum TLS for Secrets Manager, new C8in/C8ib EC2 instances, and more.
Introducing Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.7 model in Amazon Bedrock
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 an
AWS Interconnect is now generally available, with a new option to simplify last-mile connectivity
Today, we’re announcing the general availability of AWS Interconnect – multicloud, a managed private connectivity service that connects your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) directly to VPCs on other cloud providers. We’re also introducing AWS Interconnect – last mile, a new capability that
AWS Weekly Roundup: Claude Mythos Preview in Amazon Bedrock, AWS Agent Registry, and more (April 13, 2026)
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 fu
Launching S3 Files, making S3 buckets accessible as file systems
Amazon S3 Files makes S3 buckets accessible as high-performance file systems on AWS compute resources, eliminating the tradeoff between object storage benefits and interactive file capabilities while enabling seamless data sharing with ~1ms latencies.
AWS Weekly Roundup: AWS DevOps Agent & Security Agent GA, Product Lifecycle updates, and more (April 6, 2026)
Last week, I visited AWS Hong Kong User Group with my team. Hong Kong has a small but strong community, and their energy and passion are high. They recently started a new AI user group, and we hope more people will join. I was able to strengthen my bond with the community through great food […]
Amazon Bedrock Guardrails supports cross-account safeguards with centralized control and management
Organizational safeguards are now generally available in Amazon Bedrock Guardrails, enabling centralized enforcement and management of safety controls across multiple AWS accounts within an AWS Organization.
Announcing managed daemon support for Amazon ECS Managed Instances
Amazon ECS Managed Daemons gives platform engineers independent control over monitoring, logging, and tracing agents without application team coordination, ensuring consistent daemon deployment and comprehensive host-level observability at scale.
Announcing the AWS Sustainability console: Programmatic access, configurable CSV reports, and Scope 1–3 reporting in one place
AWS announces the Sustainability console, a new standalone service that consolidates carbon emissions reporting and resources, giving sustainability teams independent access to Scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions data without requiring billing permissions.
AWS Weekly Roundup: AWS AI/ML Scholars program, Agent Plugin for AWS Serverless, and more (March 30, 2026)
Last week, what excited me most was the launch of the 2026 AWS AI & ML Scholars program by Swami Sivasubramanian, VP of AWS Agentic AI, to provide free AI education to up to 100,000 learners worldwide. The program has two phases: a Challenge phase where you’ll learn foundational generative AI sk
Customize your AWS Management Console experience with visual settings including account color, region and service visibility
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 b
Announcing Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL serverless database creation in seconds
AWS introduces a new express configuration for Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL, a streamlined database creation experience with preconfigured defaults designed to help you get started in seconds. With Aurora PostgreSQL, start building quickly from the RDS Console or your preferred developer tool—with the a
AWS Weekly Roundup: NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super on Amazon Bedrock, Nova Forge SDK, Amazon Corretto 26, and more (March 23, 2026)
Hello! I’m Daniel Abib, and this is my first AWS Weekly Roundup. I’m a Senior Specialist Solutions Architect at AWS, focused on the generative AI and Amazon Bedrock. With over 28 years of experience in solution architecture, software development, and cloud architecture, I help Startups & Enterpr
20 years in the AWS Cloud – how time flies!
Celebrating twenty years of innovation in ML and AI technology at AWS. Countless developers—myself included—have embraced cloud computing and actively used its capabilities to accomplish what was previously impossible.
Our First 2026 AWS Heroes Cohort Is Here!
We’re thrilled to celebrate three exceptional developer community leaders as AWS Heroes. These individuals represent the heart of what makes the AWS community so vibrant. In addition to sharing technical knowledge, they build connections, forge genuine human relationships, and create pathways for ot
AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon S3 turns 20, Amazon Route 53 Global Resolver general availability, and more (March 16, 2026)
Twenty years ago this past week, Amazon S3 launched publicly on March 14, 2006. While Amazon Simple Storage Service is often considered the foundational storage service that defined cloud infrastructure, what began as a simple object storage service has grown into something far larger in scope and s
Twenty years of Amazon S3 and building what’s next
Some reflections on 20 years of innovations in Amazon S3 including S3 Tables, S3 Vectors and S3 Metadata.
Introducing account regional namespaces for Amazon S3 general purpose buckets
AWS launches a new feature of Amazon S3 that lets you create general purpose buckets in your own account regional namespace simplifying bucket creation and management as your data storage needs grow in size and scope.
AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon Connect Health, Bedrock AgentCore Policy, GameDay Europe, and more (March 9, 2026)
Fiti AWS Student Community Kenya! Last week was an incredible whirlwind: a round of meetups, hands-on workshops, and career discussions across Kenya that culminated with the AWS Student Community Day at Meru University of Science and Technology, with keynotes from my colleagues Veliswa and Tiffany,
Introducing OpenClaw on Amazon Lightsail to run your autonomous private AI agents
AWS launches OpenClaw on Amazon Lightsail to run OpenClaw instance, pairing your browser, enabling AI capabilities, and optionally connecting messaging channels. Your Lightsail OpenClaw instance is pre-configured with Amazon Bedrock for starting with your AI assistant immediately — no additional con
AWS Weekly Roundup: OpenAI partnership, AWS Elemental Inference, Strands Labs, and more (March 2, 2026)
This past week, I’ve been deep in the trenches helping customers transform their businesses through AI-DLC (AI-Driven Lifecycle) workshops. Throughout 2026, I’ve had the privilege of facilitating these sessions for numerous customers, guiding them through a structured framework that helps organizati
AWS Security Hub Extended offers full-stack enterprise security with curated partner solutions
AWS announces the general availability of AWS Security Hub Extended, a unified, full-stack enterprise security solution. It brings together AWS detection services and curated partner solutions through a single, simplified experience.
Transform live video for mobile audiences with AWS Elemental Inference
AWS Elemental Inference is a fully managed AI service that automatically transforms live and on-demand video broadcasts into vertical formats optimized for mobile and social platforms in real time, enabling broadcasters to reach audiences on TikTok, Instagram Reels, and YouTube Shorts without manual
AWS Weekly Roundup: Claude Sonnet 4.6 in Amazon Bedrock, Kiro in GovCloud Regions, new Agent Plugins, and more (February 23, 2026)
Last week, my team met many developers at Developer Week in San Jose. My colleague, Vinicius Senger delivered a great keynote about renascent software—a new way of building and evolving applications where humans and AI collaborate as co-developers using Kiro. Other colleagues, Du’An Lightfoot, Eliza
Amazon EC2 Hpc8a Instances powered by 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors are now available
Amazon EC2 Hpc8a instances, powered by 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors, deliver up to 40% higher performance, increased memory bandwidth, and 300 Gbps Elastic Fabric Adapter networking, helping customers accelerate compute-intensive simulations, engineering workloads, and tightly coupled HPC application
Announcing Amazon SageMaker Inference for custom Amazon Nova models
AWS launches Amazon SageMaker Inference for custom Amazon Nova models. You can now configure the instance types, auto-scaling policies, and concurrency settings for custom Nova model deployments to best meet their needs.
AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon EC2 M8azn instances, new open weights models in Amazon Bedrock, and more (February 16, 2026)
I joined AWS in 2021, and since then I’ve watched the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance family grow at a pace that still surprises me. From AWS Graviton-powered instances to specialized accelerated computing options, it feels like every few months there’s a new instance type landing
AWS Weekly Roundup: Claude Opus 4.6 in Amazon Bedrock, AWS Builder ID Sign in with Apple, and more (February 9, 2026)
Here are the notable launches and updates from last week that can help you build, scale, and innovate on AWS. Last week’s launches Here are the launches that got my attention this week. Let’s start with news related to compute and networking infrastructure: Introducing Amazon EC2 C8id, M8id, and R8i
Amazon EC2 C8id, M8id, and R8id instances with up to 22.8 TB local NVMe storage are generally available
AWS launches Amazon EC2 C8id, M8id, and R8id instances backed by NVMe-based SSD block-level instance storage physically connected to the host server. These instances offer 3 times more vCPUs, memory, and local storage with up to 22.8TB of local NVMe-backed SSD block-level storage.
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