AWS News Blog

AWS introduces new EC2 instance families (C8gd, M8gd, R8gd) powered by Graviton4 processors with NVMe SSD storage, offering up to 30% better performance, 3x more vCPUs and memory, and up to 11.4TB local storage compared to Graviton3-based predecessors.

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 […]

The Amazon Web Services (AWS) Summit 2025 season launched this week, starting with the Paris Summit. These free events bring together the global cloud computing community for learning and collaboration. AWS Community Day Romania, held on April 11th, showcased how the local community creates opportunities for collective growth and inclusion. Last week’s launches Announcing up […]

Amazon S3 Express One Zone announces significant price reductions, including reducing pricing for storage by 31%, PUTs by 55%, and GETS by 85%. In addition, S3 Express One Zone has reduced its per-gigabyte data upload and retrieval charges by 60% and now applies these charges to all bytes rather than just portions of requests exceeding 512 kilobytes.

Mistral AI’s multimodal model, Pixtral Large 25.02, is now available in Amazon Bedrock as a fully managed, serverless offering with cross-Region inference support, multilingual capabilities, and a 128K context window that can process images alongside text.

Amazon Nova Sonic is a new foundation model on Amazon Bedrock that streamlines speech-enabled applications by offering unified speech recognition and generation capabilities, enabling natural conversations with contextual understanding while eliminating the need for multiple fragmented models.

Amazon Bedrock Guardrails introduces enhanced capabilities to help enterprises implement responsible AI at scale, including multimodal toxicity detection, PII protection, IAM policy enforcement, selective policy application, and policy analysis features that customers like Grab, Remitly, and KONE are leveraging to standardize safeguards across generative AI applications.

Amazon Nova Reel 1.1 enables the generation of multi-shot videos up to 2-minutes in length and style consistency across shots, and quality and latency improvements over Amazon Nova Reel 1.0.