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A recap of the top announcements from AWS’s New York Summit 2026

Amazon CloudWatch Omni is the next evolution of CloudWatch — unified observability that brings your applications and AI agents into one reimagined experience, with auto-discovered topology, natural language queries, and AI-guided investigation powered by AWS DevOps Agent.

Learn how Amazon CloudWatch Omni delivers AI-powered observability purpose-built for generative AI and agentic workloads. Trace, evaluate, and experiment with AI agents across any framework—directly from your IDE or a standalone web experience—using open standards and built-in evaluators for quality, correctness, and coherence.

Living in the Netherlands, I spend a fair amount of time on trains, and that is usually where I catch up on what the builder community is writing. Until now, that meant opening a laptop or squinting at a browser tab on my phone. This week I found myself scrolling through trending articles and checking […]

AWS introduces new low-cost burstable Amazon EC2 T8i instances powered by custom sixth generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors (Granite Rapids), available only on AWS. T8i instances are among the lowest-cost EC2 instances and deliver up to 30% better price performance over previous generation T3 instances.

Run an application on AWS Elastic Beanstalk Cluster Mode without provisioning or operating the compute underneath it. You provide a container image or source code; Elastic Beanstalk with service-operated compute creates and operates the environment that runs it.

AWS has reimagined the getting started experience with smart and sensible defaults to help developers get started fast so that they can focus on building. New customers can sign up and get started right away with $100 in Free Tier credits, managed project environments, and simplified team and resource permissions. If their workload evolves, customers can activate advanced features to access the full breadth and depth of AWS in one step, with no migration required.

There’s a particular energy to mid-September in New York. Pumpkin spice lattes are flowing, temperatures are dropping, and it’s nearly sweater weather. The city is back at full speed, and so is the AWS launch calendar. This week that energy showed up in a new frontier model on Amazon Bedrock, a desktop app for Amazon […]

AWS introduces Amazon EBS Volume Clones with cross-account copy, so you can create copies of your EBS volumes into other AWS accounts and optionally re-encrypt them with an AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) key in the target account.