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Recent Blog Posts

  • Amazon Bedrock adds reinforcement fine-tuning simplifying how developers build smarter, more accurate AI models
    Organizations face a challenging trade-off when adapting AI models to their specific business needs: settle for generic models that produce average results, or tackle the complexity and expense of advanced model customization. Traditional approaches force a choice between poor performance with smaller models or the high costs of deploying larger model variants and managing complex … Read more
  • New serverless customization in Amazon SageMaker AI accelerates model fine-tuning
    Today, I’m happy to announce new serverless customization in Amazon SageMaker AI for popular AI models, such as Amazon Nova, DeepSeek, GPT-OSS, Llama, and Qwen. The new customization capability provides an easy-to-use interface for the latest fine-tuning techniques like reinforcement learning, so you can accelerate the AI model customization process from months to days. With … Read more
  • Introducing checkpointless and elastic training on Amazon SageMaker HyperPod
    Today, we’re announcing two new AI model training features within Amazon SageMaker HyperPod: checkpointless training, an approach that mitigates the need for traditional checkpoint-based recovery by enabling peer-to-peer state recovery, and elastic training, enabling AI workloads to automatically scale based on resource availability. Checkpointless training – Checkpointless training eliminates disruptive checkpoint-restart cycles, maintaining forward training … Read more
  • Announcing replication support and Intelligent-Tiering for Amazon S3 Tables
    Today, we’re announcing two new capabilities for Amazon S3 Tables: support for the new Intelligent-Tiering storage class that automatically optimizes costs based on access patterns, and replication support to automatically maintain consistent Apache Iceberg table replicas across AWS Regions and accounts without manual sync. Organizations working with tabular data face two common challenges. First, they … Read more
  • Amazon S3 Storage Lens adds performance metrics, support for billions of prefixes, and export to S3 Tables
    Today, we’re announcing three new capabilities for Amazon S3 Storage Lens that give you deeper insights into your storage performance and usage patterns. With the addition of performance metrics, support for analyzing billions of prefixes, and direct export to Amazon S3 Tables, you have the tools you need to optimize application performance, reduce costs, and … Read more
  • Amazon Bedrock AgentCore adds quality evaluations and policy controls for deploying trusted AI agents
    Today, we’re announcing new capabilities in Amazon Bedrock AgentCore to further remove barriers holding AI agents back from production. Organizations across industries are already building on AgentCore, the most advanced agentic platform to build, deploy, and operate highly capable agents securely at any scale. In just 5 months since preview, the AgentCore SDK has been … Read more
  • Build multi-step applications and AI workflows with AWS Lambda durable functions
    Modern applications increasingly require complex and long-running coordination between services, such as multi-step payment processing, AI agent orchestration, or approval processes awaiting human decisions. Building these traditionally required significant effort to implement state management, handle failures, and integrate multiple infrastructure services. Starting today, you can use AWS Lambda durable functions to build reliable multi-step applications … Read more
  • New capabilities to optimize costs and improve scalability on Amazon RDS for SQL Server and Oracle
    Managing database environments demands a balance of resource efficiency and scalability. Organizations need flexible options across their entire database lifecycle, spanning development, testing, and production workloads with diverse storage and compute requirements. To address these needs, we’re announcing four new capabilities for Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) to help customers optimize their costs as … Read more
  • Introducing Database Savings Plans for AWS Databases
    Since Amazon Web Services (AWS) introduced Savings Plans, customers have been able to lower the cost of running sustained workloads while maintaining the flexibility to manage usage across accounts, resource types, and AWS Regions. Today, we’re extending this flexible pricing model to AWS managed database services with the launch of Database Savings Plans, which help … Read more
  • Amazon CloudWatch introduces unified data management and analytics for operations, security, and compliance
    Today we’re expanding Amazon CloudWatch capabilities to unify and manage log data across operational, security, and compliance use cases with flexible and powerful analytics in one place and with reduced data duplication and costs. This enhancement means that CloudWatch can automatically normalize and process data to offer consistency across sources with built-in support for Open … Read more
  • New and enhanced AWS Support plans add AI capabilities to expert guidance
    Today, we’re announcing a fundamental shift in how AWS Support helps customers move from reactive problem-solving to proactive issue prevention. This evolution introduces new Support plans that combine AI-powered capabilities with Amazon Web Services (AWS) expertise. The new and enhanced plans help you identify and address potential issues before they impact your business operations, helping … Read more
  • Amazon OpenSearch Service improves vector database performance and cost with GPU acceleration and auto-optimization
    Today we’re announcing serverless GPU acceleration and auto-optimization for vector index in Amazon OpenSearch Service that helps you build large-scale vector databases faster with lower costs and automatically optimize vector indexes for optimal trade-offs between search quality, speed, and cost. Here are the new capabilities introduced today: GPU acceleration – You can build vector databases … Read more
  • Amazon S3 Vectors now generally available with increased scale and performance
    Today, I’m excited to announce that Amazon S3 Vectors is now generally available with significantly increased scale and production-grade performance capabilities. S3 Vectors is the first cloud object storage with native support to store and query vector data. You can use it to help you reduce the total cost of storing and querying vectors by … Read more
  • Amazon Bedrock adds 18 fully managed open weight models, including the new Mistral Large 3 and Ministral 3 models
    Today, we’re announcing the general availability of an additional 18 fully managed open weight models in Amazon Bedrock from Google, Moonshot AI, MiniMax AI, Mistral AI, NVIDIA, OpenAI, and Qwen, including the new Mistral Large 3 and Ministral 3 3B, 8B, and 14B models. With this launch, Amazon Bedrock now provides nearly 100 serverless models, … Read more
  • Introducing Amazon EC2 X8aedz instances powered by 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors for memory-intensive workloads
    Today, we’re announcing the availability of new memory-optimized, high-frequency Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) X8aedz instances powered by a 5th Gen AMD EPYC processor. These instances offer the highest CPU frequency, 5GHz in the cloud. They deliver up to two times higher compute performance and 31% price-performance compared to previous generation X2iezn instances. X8aedz … Read more
  • AWS DevOps Agent helps you accelerate incident response and improve system reliability (preview)
    Today, we’re announcing the public preview of AWS DevOps Agent, a frontier agent that helps you respond to incidents, identify root causes, and prevent future issues through systematic analysis of past incidents and operational patterns. Frontier agents represent a new class of AI agents that are autonomous, massively scalable, and work for hours or days … Read more
  • Accelerate AI development using Amazon SageMaker AI with serverless MLflow
    Since we announced Amazon SageMaker AI with MLflow in June 2024, our customers have been using MLflow tracking servers to manage their machine learning (ML) and AI experimentation workflows. Building on this foundation, we’re continuing to evolve the MLflow experience to make experimentation even more accessible. Today, I’m excited to announce that Amazon SageMaker AI … Read more
  • Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP now integrates with Amazon S3 for seamless data access
    Today, we’re announcing the ability to access your data in Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP file systems using Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). With this capability, you can use your enterprise file data to augment generative AI applications with Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases for Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), train machine learning (ML) models with … Read more
  • Introducing Amazon Nova 2 Lite, a fast, cost-effective reasoning model
    Today, we’re releasing Amazon Nova 2 Lite, a fast, cost-effective reasoning model for everyday workloads. Available in Amazon Bedrock, the model offers industry-leading price performance and helps enterprises and developers build capable, reliable, and efficient agentic-AI applications. For organizations who need AI that truly understands their domain, Nova 2 Lite is the best model to … Read more
  • New AWS Security Agent secures applications proactively from design to deployment (preview)
    Today, we’re announcing AWS Security Agent in preview, a frontier agent that proactively secures your applications throughout the development lifecycle. It conducts automated application security reviews tailored to your organizational requirements and delivers context-aware penetration testing on demand. By continuously validating application security from design to deployment, it helps prevent vulnerabilities early in development. Static … Read more
  • AWS Security Hub now generally available with near real-time analytics and risk prioritization
    Today, AWS Security Hub is generally available, transforming how security teams identify and respond to critical security risks across their AWS environments. These new capabilities were first announced in preview at AWS re:Inforce 2025. Security Hub prioritizes your critical security issues and unifies your security operations to help you respond at scale by correlating and … Read more
  • Amazon GuardDuty adds Extended Threat Detection for Amazon EC2 and Amazon ECS
    Today, we’re announcing new enhancements to Amazon GuardDuty Extended Threat Detection with the addition of two attack sequence findings for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances and Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) tasks. These new findings build on the existing Extended Threat Detection capabilities, which already combine sequences involving AWS Identity and Access … Read more
  • Introducing Amazon Nova Forge: Build your own frontier models using Nova
    Organizations are rapidly expanding their use of generative AI across all parts of the business. Applications requiring deep domain expertise or specific business context need models that truly understand their proprietary knowledge, workflows, and unique requirements. While techniques like prompt engineering and Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) work well for many use cases, they have fundamental limitations … Read more
  • Resilience Is a Board Imperative
    If you serve on a board today, you already understand that cybersecurity and data resilience matter. The harder question is whether your organization can perform under pressure. Data resilience is no longer about having security alone; it is about whether systems and people can act when it counts, regardless of if they are going through … Read more
  • AWS Transform for mainframe introduces Reimagine capabilities and automated testing functionality
    In May, 2025, we launched AWS Transform for mainframe, the first agentic AI service for modernizing mainframe workloads at scale. The AI-powered mainframe agent accelerates mainframe modernization by automating complex, resource-intensive tasks across every phase of modernization—from initial assessment to final deployment. You can streamline the migration of legacy mainframe applications, including COBOL, CICS, DB2, … Read more
  • AWS Transform announces full-stack Windows modernization capabilities
    Earlier this year in May, we announced the general availability of AWS Transform for .NET, the first agentic AI service for modernizing .NET applications at scale. During the early adoption period of the service, we received valuable feedback indicating that, in addition to .NET application modernization, you would like to modernize SQL Server and legacy … Read more
  • Introducing AWS Transform custom: Crush tech debt with AI-powered code modernization
    Technical debt is one of the most persistent challenges facing enterprise development teams today. Studies show that organizations spend 20% of their IT budget on technical debt instead of advancing new capabilities. Whether it’s upgrading legacy frameworks, migrating to newer runtime versions, or refactoring outdated code patterns, these essential but repetitive tasks consume valuable developer … Read more
  • Top announcements of AWS re:Invent 2025
    We’re rounding up the most exciting and impactful announcements from AWS re:Invent 2025, which takes place November 30-December 4 in Las Vegas. This guide highlights the innovations that will help you build, scale, and transform your business in the cloud. We’ll update this roundup throughout re:Invent with our curation of the major announcements from each … Read more
  • Introducing Amazon Route 53 Global Resolver for secure anycast DNS resolution (preview)
    Today, we’re announcing Amazon Route 53 Global Resolver, a new Amazon Route 53 service that provides secure and reliable DNS resolution globally for queries from anywhere (preview). You can use Global Resolver to resolve DNS queries to public domains on the internet and private domains associated with Route 53 private hosted zones. Route 53 Global … Read more
  • AWS Clean Rooms launches privacy-enhancing synthetic dataset generation for ML model training
    Today, we’re announcing privacy-enhancing synthetic dataset generation for AWS Clean Rooms, a new capability that organizations and their partners can use to generate privacy-enhancing synthetic datasets from their collective data to train regression and classification machine learning (ML) models. You can use this feature to generate synthetic training datasets that preserve the statistical patterns of … Read more
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