AWS continues to expand access to the most advanced foundation models with OpenAI open weight models now available in Amazon Bedrock and Amazon SageMaker JumpStart. Accessing these new open weight models from OpenAI on AWS, gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b, gives you more freedom to innovate and choose the optimal models for your specific use cases while […]

AWS Systems Manager (SSM) Run Command now allows customers to interpolate parameters into environment variables before command execution. Run Command allows customers to define commands that will be executed on managed instances via the SSM Agent. By interpolating parameters into environment variables, this new feature makes it easier for customers to prevent unintended command injection […]

Amazon RDS io2 Block Express volumes are now available in all commercial regions, except and AWS GovCloud (US) and AWS China regions. Amazon RDS io2 Block Express volumes provide consistent sub-millisecond latency for mission critical workloads. Amazon RDS io2 Block Express volumes are designed for all your critical database workloads that demand high performance, high […]

Customers can now use Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.1 in Amazon Bedrock. Claude Opus 4.1 is Anthropic’s most intelligent model to date and an industry leader for coding and agents. Claude Opus 4.1 is a drop-in replacement for Opus 4 and delivers superior performance and precision for real-world coding and agentic tasks. Its advanced coding capabilities […]

Today, AWS announces the general availability of Amazon Elastic VMware Service (Amazon EVS), allowing you to run VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) directly within your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC). With Amazon EVS, you can leverage the scale, elasticity, and performance of AWS while maintaining your familiar VCF software and existing skills, eliminating the need […]

AWS Parallel Computing Service (PCS) now supports Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) for Slurm endpoints, enabling customers to run workloads in IPv6-only or dual-stack Amazon Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs). This helps customers meet IPv6 compliance requirements. PCS is a managed service that makes it easier for you to run and scale your high performance computing […]

AWS Elastic Beanstalk now supports VPCE endpoints that have been validated under the Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 140-3 program. You can now easily use AWS PrivateLink to access Elastic Beanstalk endpoints when you require a secure connection using a FIPS 140-3 validated cryptographic module. FIPS compliant endpoints help companies contracting with the US federal […]

Amazon OpenSearch Serverless has added support for backup and restore. System will backup all collections/indexes in the account automatically every hour. The backups are retained for 14 days and available to restore indexes using APIs. The feature is automatically enabled and does not require users to configure. Please refer to the AWS Regional Services List […]