AWS What's New

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon WorkSpaces now lets AI agents operate desktop applications (Preview). Published context: May 5, 2026. Amazon WorkSpaces, AWS’s fully managed cloud desktop service, now enables AI agents to securely access and operate desktop applications through managed WorkSpaces environments. Many enterprises run critical business processes on desktop applications—mainframes, ERP systems, and proprietary tools—that lack modern APIs, creating a “last-mile challenge” for AI The reason this matters is simple: buyers are paying attention to speed, operational resilience, and credible technical execution. A trending story can create awareness, but the business question is what a team should do with that attention. ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon Bedrock AgentCore is now available in AWS GovCloud (US-West). Published context: May 5, 2026. Amazon Bedrock AgentCore brings enterprise-grade agentic AI capabilities to workloads with elevated compliance needs in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region. AgentCore is a platform for building, deploying, and operating AI agents securely at scale—without managing infrastructure. With AgentCore, organizations can accelerate agents from prototype to production The reason this matters is simple: buyers are paying attention to speed, operational resilience, and credible technical execution. A trending story can create awareness, but the business question is what a team should do with that attention. ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon SageMaker AI launches AI agent experience for model customization. Published context: May 4, 2026. Amazon SageMaker AI now features an agentic experience that transforms model customization from a months-long process into a workflow completed in days or hours. Customers building an AI solution need to carefully frame their use case goals and success criteria, prepare data, choose the right models, configure, run, and analyze multiple experiments with vari ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon FSx is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (New Zealand) Region. Published context: May 4, 2026. Amazon FSx, a fully-managed service that makes it easy and cost effective to launch, run, and scale feature-rich, high-performance file systems in the cloud, is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (New Zealand) Region. Amazon FSx lets you choose between four widely-used file systems: NetApp ONTAP, Windows File Server, Lustre, and OpenZFS. It supports a wid ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime now supports Node.js for direct code deployment. Published context: April 28, 2026. Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime now supports Node.js as a managed language runtime for direct code deployment, alongside the existing Python support. Developers can bring their Node.js-based agents to AgentCore Runtime by packaging their agent code and dependencies into a .zip file archive, without building or managing a container image. To deploy, write yo ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon RDS for SQL Server supports read replica with additional storage volumes. Published context: May 1, 2026. Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for SQL Server now supports read replicas for database instances with additional storage volumes. Additional storage volumes allow customers to scale database storage up to 256 TiB by adding up to three storage volumes, each with up to 64 TiB, in addition to the primary storage volume. With this launch, for dat ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon Bedrock AgentCore is now available in the South America (São Paulo) Region. Published context: May 1, 2026. Amazon Bedrock AgentCore is now available in the AWS South America (São Paulo) Region. Amazon Bedrock AgentCore is the platform to build, connect, and optimize agents. It helps engineers ship agents fast with any framework and any model, connect them to enterprise systems and tools, and optimize them continuously, with security enforced at the infrastructure ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported General availability of AWS for SAP MCP Server in Amazon Bedrock AgentCore. Published context: April 23, 2026. Today, we’re announcing the General Availability of the AWS for SAP MCP Server on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, purpose-built to connect AI agents directly to SAP ERP systems, securely and at scale. Built on the Model Context Protocol (MCP) and SAP’s Open Data Protocol (OData) standards, this solution addresses the challenge of making SAP business data and proce ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported OpenAI GPT OSS and NVIDIA Nemotron Models Available on Amazon Bedrock in AWS GovCloud (US). Published context: April 29, 2026. Amazon Bedrock now supports OpenAI’s open-weight GPT OSS models (120B and 20B) and NVIDIA Nemotron (Nano 9B v2, Nano 12B v2, Nano 30B, Super 120B) models expanding your ability to build and scale generative AI applications with diverse, high-performance foundation models. This offers the flexibility to leverage OpenAI’s and NVIDIA’s latest models alongside o ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon CloudFront Announces WebSocket Support for VPC Origins. Published context: May 1, 2026. Amazon CloudFront now supports WebSockets traffic through Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) origins, enabling you to use CloudFront as the single entry point for real-time applications hosted entirely in private subnets. WebSockets support extends VPC origins to applications that require persistent, bidirectional connections between clients and servers, such as ch The reason this matters is simple: buyers are paying attention to speed, operational resilience, and credible technical execution. A trending story can create awareness, but the business question is what a team should do with that attention. ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported FreeRTOS 202604 LTS now available with enhanced security and MQTT v5.0. Published context: May 1, 2026. FreeRTOS 202604 LTS, a new Long Term Support release of the open-source real-time operating system for embedded devices, is now available. This release provides embedded systems developers and Internet of Things (IoT) device manufacturers with feature stability, security updates, and critical bug fixes for two years. It addresses key challenges in embedded s ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported OpenAI GPT OSS and NVIDIA Nemotron Models Available on Amazon Bedrock in AWS GovCloud (US). Published context: April 29, 2026. Amazon Bedrock now supports OpenAI’s open-weight GPT OSS models (120B and 20B) and NVIDIA Nemotron (Nano 9B v2, Nano 12B v2, Nano 30B, Super 120B) models expanding your ability to build and scale generative AI applications with diverse, high-performance foundation models. This offers the flexibility to leverage OpenAI’s and NVIDIA’s latest models alongside o ...