AWS News Blog
Category: Announcements
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 R8id instances: These new Amazon EC2 […]
Opening the AWS European Sovereign Cloud
Deutsch | English | Español | Français | Italiano As a European citizen, I understand first-hand the importance of digital sovereignty, especially for our public sector organisations and highly regulated industries. Today, I’m delighted to share that the AWS European Sovereign Cloud is now generally available to all customers. We first announced our plans to […]
AWS Weekly Roundup: AWS Lambda for .NET 10, AWS Client VPN quickstart, Best of AWS re:Invent, and more (January 12, 2026)
At the beginning of January, I tend to set my top resolutions for the year, a way to focus on what I want to achieve. If AI and cloud computing are on your resolution list, consider creating an AWS Free Tier account to receive up to $200 in credits and have 6 months of risk-free […]
Amazon Bedrock adds reinforcement fine-tuning simplifying how developers build smarter, more accurate AI models
Amazon Bedrock now supports reinforcement fine-tuning delivering 66% accuracy gains on average over base models.
Announcing replication support and Intelligent-Tiering for Amazon S3 Tables
New features enable automatic cost optimization through intelligent storage tiering and simplified table replication across AWS Regions and accounts.
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore adds quality evaluations and policy controls for deploying trusted AI agents
Deploy AI agents with confidence using new quality evaluations and policy controls—enabling precise boundaries on agent actions, continuous quality monitoring, and experience-based learning while maintaining natural conversation flows.
Introducing Database Savings Plans for AWS Databases
New pricing model helps maintain cost efficiency while providing flexibility with database services and deployment options.
Amazon S3 Vectors now generally available with increased scale and performance
Scale vector storage and querying to new heights with S3 Vectors’ general availability—now supporting up to 1 billion vectors per index, 100ms query latencies, and expanded regional availability, while reducing costs up to 90% compared to specialized databases.





