AWS News Blog

Category: Announcements

AWS Weekly Roundup

AWS Weekly Roundup: AWS FinOps Agent in preview, Gemma 4 on Bedrock, Kiro Pro Max, and more (June 15, 2026)

This week, New York City is hosting AWS Summit, bringing together builders, customers, and AWS teams for a full day of announcements, demos, and technical sessions at the Javits Center. I wrote blog posts for some of the Summit launches, so I am excited to see them go live this week. I just won’t be […]

AWS Weekly Roundup

AWS Weekly Roundup: BYOM for Amazon RDS for SQL Server, AWS IoT Device SDK for Swift, and more (June 8, 2026)

This week, the AWS IoT Device SDK for Swift reached general availability. As a member of the Swift Server Workgroup (SSWG), this one caught my attention. The SDK brings production-ready MQTT 5 connectivity, Device Shadow, Jobs, and fleet provisioning to Swift developers on macOS, iOS, tvOS, and Linux. I’m curious to see what you will build with it. […]

Improve your application resilience with Amazon Cognito multi-Region replication

Amazon Cognito now offers multi-Region replication that automatically synchronizes user data, credentials, and pool configurations to a secondary AWS Region, enabling uninterrupted authentication during regional failovers without forced password resets—plus new support for customer managed KMS keys for encryption control.

AWS Heroes

Meet Our Newest AWS Heroes – May 2026

We’re excited to welcome four outstanding community leaders as our newest AWS Heroes. These individuals embody the spirit of collaboration and knowledge sharing that makes the AWS community thrive. From building AI-powered tools that help fellow builders navigate AWS re:Invent, to leading some of the largest AWS communities in Latin America, to sharing deep cloud […]

AWS Weekly Roundup: AWS Local Zones in Istanbul, open-source ExtendDB, Kiro Web, and more (May 25, 2026)

There’s something genuinely energizing about working with startups – something I’ve been doing intensely for more than two years now. Startups operate at a different frequency: the urgency is real, the constraints are tight, and the stakes are personal. Helping them navigate the challenge of proving their business model requires not just technical depth but […]

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 the MCP Server, skills, and plugins that help coding agents build more effectively and efficiently on AWS.

AWS Weekly Roundup

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 centuries. There’s something […]