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AWS Health introduces the version catalog for software lifecycle management

Today, AWS Health introduces the version catalog which provides a centralized source of lifecycle information for software versions across AWS services. The version catalog helps customers move from reactive to proactive management of version upgrades and end-of-support risk. It is available in the AWS Health Dashboard, and customers on Business Support Plus, Enterprise Support, or Unified Operations can use the AWS Health API to integrate lifecycle data into their operational workflows. Customers running applications on AWS need to stay current with software versions to maintain a strong security and operational posture. AWS Health already …

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Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Memory now supports fine-grained access control

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Memory now supports fine-grained access control (FGAC), enabling you to enforce per-user and per-tenant memory isolation through AgentCore Gateway without building custom authorization logic. With FGAC, you can front your Memory resource with an AgentCore Gateway configured for OAuth (JWT) authentication and attach Cedar policies that restrict access based on the authenticated caller's identity. You can enforce that each user only accesses their own actor's data, restrict memory records to namespaces derived from the user's token claims, and allow or deny specific Memory operations per caller. This lets you move acce…

AWS What’s New · 28 Aug 2026Read →
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SpaceXAI Grok 4.6 now available on Amazon Bedrock in AWS GovCloud (US)

Amazon Bedrock in AWS GovCloud (US) now supports SpaceXAI Grok 4.6, a frontier model built for coding, agentic tasks, and knowledge work. Grok 4.6 is SpaceXAI’s latest flagship model, built for long-running agents and ambitious interactive and visual work. It offers 500k context window and configurable reasoning efforts (low, medium, high, xhigh). The model runs on the bedrock-runtime endpoint with support for the Responses, Chat Completions, and Converse APIs, and customers can access Grok 4.6 at scale with cross-Region inference routing requests across both AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. Grok 4.6 is also avialable via the bedrock-mantle endpoi…

AWS What’s New · 28 Aug 2026Read →
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In the works: AWS Builder Lofts in Berlin, Hyderabad, and São Paulo

Each location will be a permanent community space to offer free workshops, networking events, pitch nights, content creation spaces, collaboration/co-working areas, and event hosting for developers, students, or tech professionals who want to walk through the doors.

AWS News Blog · 18 Aug 2026Read →
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How to Pretty-Print Your Kubernetes YAML as KYAML and Why You'd Want To

YAML has been the standard way to write Kubernetes manifests for years. Every example, tutorial, and configuration file you come across is written in it. The problem isn't that YAML is a bad format. It's that YAML gives you a lot of choices, and not all of them are equally good for writing Kubernetes manifests. Some features make files harder to read, some are easy to misuse and others can lead to surprising behavior. The interesting part is that Kubernetes doesn't actually need most of those features. It only relies on a small subset of YAML. This led to a simple question: if Kubernetes only needs a small part of YAML, why not standardize o…

Kubernetes Blog · 11 Aug 2026Read →
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How the controller-runtime Cache Actually Works, and Why Your Controller Does Not Crash the API Server

This article has been revised since it was first published, to correct several significant technical inaccuracies in the original text. Kubernetes has long been the default platform for distributed workloads, and writing your own controller for it is now a matter of a few hours. The common path — Golang, using kubebuilder on top of controller-runtime — gives you a project scaffold, types, and a reconciler. For typical scenarios that is more than enough. But as soon as load grows or the controller starts behaving in ways you did not expect, a whole class of edge cases shows up. Most of them trace back to the same root cause: a fuzzy mental mo…

Kubernetes Blog · 29 Jul 2026Read →