AWS News Blog
Category: Announcements
Introducing Amazon EBS Volume Clones: Create instant copies of your EBS volumes
AWS launched Amazon EBS Volume Clones, a new capability that allows users to create instant point-in-time copies of EBS volumes within the same Availability Zone with a single API call, eliminating the previous multi-step process of taking snapshots and creating volumes from them.
AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon Quick Suite, Amazon EC2, Amazon EKS, and more (October 13, 2025)
This week I was at the inaugural AWS AI in Practice meetup from the AWS User Group UK. AI-assisted software development and agents were the focus of the evening! Next week I’ll be in Italy for Codemotion (Milan) and an AWS User Group meetup (Rome). My sessions there will be about AI agents and context […]
Announcing Amazon Quick Suite: your agentic teammate for answering questions and taking action
Amazon has announced Quick Suite, a new AI-powered workspace that combines research, business intelligence, and automation tools to help users analyze data and streamline workflows all in one place.
AWS IAM Identity Center now supports customer-managed KMS keys for encryption at rest
Gain control over encryption and comply with regulations using customer-managed keys for AWS IAM Identity Center’s user data and passwords.
Announcing Amazon ECS Managed Instances for containerized applications
Amazon ECS Managed Instances is a new compute option that eliminates infrastructure management overhead while giving you access to the broad suite of EC2 capabilities including the flexibility to select instance types, access reserved capacity, and advanced security and observability configurations.
Introducing Claude Sonnet 4.5 in Amazon Bedrock: Anthropic’s most intelligent model, best for coding and complex agents
Amazon Web Services announces Claude Sonnet 4.5 in Amazon Bedrock, featuring advanced capabilities in coding, tool handling, and long-horizon tasks, with improvements in memory management, context processing, and industry-specific applications across finance, research, and cybersecurity sectors.
AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon S3, Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, AWS X-Ray and more (September 29, 2025)
Wow, can you all believe it? We’re nearing the end of the year already. Next thing you know, AWS re:Invent will be here! This is our biggest event that takes place every year in Las Vegas from December 1st to December 5th where we reveal and release many of the things that we’ve been working […]
Accelerate AI agent development with the Nova Act IDE extension
The Nova Act extension is a new IDE-integrated tool that enables developers to create browser automation agents using natural language through the Nova Act model, offering features like Builder Mode, chat capabilities, and predefined templates while streamlining the development process without leaving their preferred development environment.