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AWS now offers Claude Sonnet 5.5, a smarter and more efficient Sonnet that delivers a clear leap forward on coding and knowledge work with at a lower cost per task for most work at faster speed. Claude Sonnet 5.5 is a smarter, more efficient Sonnet and a step up from Sonnet 5, making it a natural upgrade for teams already building on Sonnet. It's stronger for coding, completing well-scoped tasks as part of a larger coding strategy such as building and fixing features with Claude in the same session or verifying output against requirements. And it produces ready-to-share knowledge work, from 1-pagers, diagrams, and summary slides to document …
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Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio now supports two new connection capabilities: (1) Iceberg REST Catalog (IRC) connections for external Apache Iceberg catalogs, and (2) IAM authentication for Amazon DocumentDB. Together, they let data teams connect to a broader set of governed data sources and use credential-less authentication across projects. Iceberg REST Catalog connections. SageMaker Unified Studio now supports Iceberg REST Catalog (IRC) connections, letting customers connect to external Apache Iceberg catalogs that follow the Iceberg REST specification. Supported catalog types include Snowflake Open Catalog (Polaris), Databricks Unity Cat…
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AWS Backup logically air-gapped vault now supports Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP. Logically air-gapped vaults are a type of AWS Backup vault that allows secure sharing of backups across accounts and AWS Organizations, supporting direct restore to reduce recovery time from a data loss event. You can now protect your Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP volumes in logically air-gapped vaults. A logically air-gapped vault stores immutable backups that are locked by default, and isolated with encryption using AWS owned keys or customer-managed keys. You can store your FSx for NetApp ONTAP backups in a logically air-gapped vault in the same account or acros…
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Amazon Transcribe now lets you encrypt your custom vocabularies, custom vocabulary filters, and custom language models at rest with a customer-managed AWS KMS key that you own and control. Previously, these custom resources were always encrypted with an AWS owned key. Now you can supply your own symmetric AWS KMS key when you create or update these resources, so the artifacts Transcribe stores on your behalf are encrypted under a key in your account. If you do not provide a key, your resources continue to be encrypted with an AWS owned key—no action is required unless you opt in. With a customer-managed key, you control key permissions and d…
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AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery (AWS DRS) now supports disaster recovery for AWS Graviton-based (arm64) source servers. You can now protect and recover your Graviton workloads with the same simple, reliable DRS experience you already use for x86 workloads. As more workloads move to Graviton for its price-performance benefits, they need the same disaster recovery coverage as the rest of your environment. DRS now automatically detects arm64 source servers and recovers them onto Graviton instances, preserving your workload's architecture end to end. Recovery works the same way it does for your other servers, with nothing extra to configure. This …
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AWS End User Messaging and Amazon SES now publish AI agent skills for the AWS MCP Server, enabling developers to build and send messages by asking their AI coding agent in plain language. Previously, developers had to navigate multiple documentation pages and management console screens to complete messaging tasks. Now, each skill provides your agent with step-by-step, validated guidance for tasks like verifying sending identities, building branded Rich Communication Services (RCS) agents, and sending production emails. These skills integrate with popular AI coding agents including Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and Kiro. For example, you can as…
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AWS End User Messaging now lets businesses place and receive voice calls with their customers directly inside WhatsApp, using the same verified business identity they already use for messaging. With WhatsApp voice calling, a conversation can move seamlessly from a chat thread to a voice call without switching to a separate channel or application, so context is never lost and customers stay in the message thread where the conversation started. Voice calling works in both directions. Customers can call a business from within a WhatsApp chat, and businesses can call customers who have granted permission to be contacted. You can enable and manag…
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AWS Billing and Cost Management now offers the ListBillingViewSegments API, which returns the billing context of your account over a time period you specify. You can use the API to retrieve information about how your accounts are positioned in the billing hierarchy, such as management accounts, member accounts, or billing group primary accounts. You can also identify which accounts managed your billing relationship and the rate settings, either billable or pro forma, applied to your cost data. The API returns billing context only, not cost and usage data. You can call the API directly or through an AI agent. Your billing context can change m…
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Amazon EventBridge announces an enhanced custom event bus for organizations scaling event-driven applications across teams and accounts. Deploy a single event bus shared across all AWS accounts in your organization, with ordering guarantees, a simplified Subscriber resource, and improved economics at scale.
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AWS Lambda durable functions are now available in the AWS European Sovereign Cloud. Lambda durable functions enable developers to build reliable multi-step applications and AI workflows within the Lambda developer experience. Lambda durable functions extend the Lambda programming model with new primitives in your event handler, such as "step" and "wait", allowing you to checkpoint progress, automatically recover from failures, and pause executions without incurring compute charges for on-demand functions. With availability in the AWS European Sovereign Cloud region, customers can orchestrate complex processes such as order workflows, user on…
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Amazon GameLift Servers is a fully managed service for deploying, operating, and scaling dedicated game servers for multiplayer games. High latency caused by geographic distance between players and servers remains one of the most common challenges in multiplayer game development. This expansion helps game developers and studios address that challenge by bringing Amazon GameLift Servers to 5 new AWS Regions and 8 AWS Local Zones worldwide. With this expansion, customers can deploy game server fleets closer to players across Latin America, Southeast Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and South Asia, reducing latency and improving gameplay responsi…
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Amazon Kinesis Data Streams now supports service-managed partition keys for On-Demand Standard and On-Demand Advantage streams, automatically distributing records across shards without requiring customers to specify partition keys to publish data. This capability simplifies data ingestion for workloads where record ordering is not required, eliminating hot partition keys and reducing time to production for streaming workloads. Amazon Kinesis Data Streams is a serverless streaming data service that makes it easy to capture, process, and store data streams at any scale. Many streaming use cases such as log aggregation, metrics collection, and …
