AWS News Blog
Category: Amazon CloudFront
AWS Weekly Roundup: Claude Opus 4.6 in Amazon Bedrock, AWS Builder ID Sign in with Apple, and more (February 9, 2026)
This week’s roundup covers launches across compute, networking, security, and AI. Amazon EC2 introduces new C8id, M8id, and R8id instances powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors. AWS Network Firewall announces price reductions. Amazon DynamoDB global tables now support replication across multiple AWS accounts for improved resiliency and workload isolation.
On the security front, AWS Builder ID now supports Sign in with Apple, AWS STS adds validation for identity provider claims and Amazon CloudFront introduces mutual TLS support for origins to enforce certificate-based authentication. For AI, Claude Opus 4.6—Anthropic’s most intelligent model—is now available in Amazon Bedrock, bringing industry-leading performance for agentic tasks and complex coding projects. Amazon Bedrock also adds structured outputs for consistent, machine-readable responses that adhere to your defined JSON schemas.
AWS Weekly Roundup: Strands Agents 1M+ downloads, Cloud Club Captain, AI Agent Hackathon, and more (September 15, 2025)
Last week, Strands Agents, AWS open source for agentic AI SDK just hit 1 million downloads and earned 3,000+ GitHub Stars less than 4 months since launching as a preview in May 2025. With Strands Agents, you can build production-ready, multi-agent AI systems in a few lines of code. We’ve continuously improved features including support […]
Amazon CloudFront simplifies web application delivery and security with new user-friendly interface
Try the simplified console experience with Amazon CloudFront to accelerate and secure web applications within a few clicks by automating TLS certificate provisioning, DNS configuration, and security settings through an integrated interface with AWS WAF’s enhanced Rule Packs.
AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon Nova Premier, Amazon Q Developer, Amazon Q CLI, Amazon CloudFront, AWS Outposts, and more (May 5, 2025)
Last week I went to Thailand to attend the AWS Summit Bangkok. It was an energizing and exciting event. We hosted the Developer Lounge, where developers can meet, discuss ideas, enjoy lightning talks, win SWAGs at AWS Builder ID Prize Wheel, take a challenge at Amazon Q Developer Coding Challenge, or learn Generative AI at […]
Reduce your operational overhead today with Amazon CloudFront SaaS Manager
Amazon CloudFront SaaS Manager helps software-as-a-service (SaaS) providers and web hosting platforms efficiently manage delivery across multiple domains. CloudFront SaaS Manager can dramatically reduce operational complexity while providing high-performance content delivery and enterprise-grade security for every customer domain.
AWS Weekly Roundup: Upcoming AWS Summits, Amazon Q Developer, Amazon CloudFront updates, and more (April 21, 2025)
Last week, we had the AWS Summit Amsterdam, one of the global Amazon Web Services (AWS) events that offers you the opportunity to learn from technical and industry leaders, and meet AWS experts and like-minded professionals. In particular, most AWS Summits have Developer and Community Lounges in their exhibition halls. A photo taken by Thembile […]
Introducing Amazon CloudFront VPC origins: Enhanced security and streamlined operations for your applications
Securely deliver high-performance web apps with CloudFront VPC origins; serve content directly from private subnets, eliminating undifferentiated work.
Amazon CloudFront now accepts your applications’ gRPC calls
Unlock high-performance APIs with gRPC on Amazon CloudFront. Reduce latency via a global CDN, secure traffic at the edge, and benefit from DDoS protection.



