AWS What's New

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Agents that transact: Amazon Bedrock AgentCore now includes Payments (preview). Published context: May 7, 2026. Today, Amazon Bedrock AgentCore announces the preview of AgentCore payments, enabling AI agents to autonomously access and pay for APIs, MCP servers, web content, and other agents. Built in partnership with Coinbase and Stripe, AgentCore payments is the first managed payment capabilities purpose-built for autonomous agents, handling the full payment lifecycl ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported AWS Service Catalog is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (New Zealand) and Canada West (Calgary) regions. Published context: May 8, 2026. AWS Service Catalog is now available to customers in two additional AWS Regions: Asia Pacific (New Zealand) and Canada West (Calgary). AWS Service Catalog enables customers to create, govern, and distribute a catalog of approved Infrastructure as Code (IaC) products for deployment on AWS. Administrators define products using AWS CloudFormation or other IaC t ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported IAM Policy Autopilot adds Java support and Terraform-aware policy generation. Published context: May 8, 2026. IAM Policy Autopilot now supports Java applications and Terraform-aware policy generation, expanding its language coverage and its ability to generate less permissive IAM policies from code. IAM Policy Autopilot is an open-source tool launched at re:Invent 2025 that helps builders quickly and deterministically create baseline IAM policies on AWS that you can ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon ElastiCache now supports real-time hybrid search with vector and full-text. Published context: May 6, 2026. Amazon ElastiCache now supports real-time hybrid search that combines vector similarity with full-text search in a single query, without a separate search service. Applications can combine semantic meaning with exact keyword matching that captures both intent and precise terms to deliver more relevant results than either method alone. Customers can use Elast ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon EC2 M8gn and M8gb instances are now available in AWS Europe (Ireland) region. Published context: May 7, 2026. Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) M8gn and M8gb instances are available in the AWS Europe (Ireland) region. These instances are powered by AWS Graviton4 processors to deliver up to 30% better compute performance than AWS Graviton3 processors, and feature the latest 6th generation AWS Nitro Cards. M8gn instances offer up to 600 Gbps ne ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon SageMaker HyperPod now supports AMI-based node lifecycle configuration for Slurm clusters. Published context: May 7, 2026. Amazon SageMaker HyperPod now supports AMI-based configuration that provisions Slurm cluster nodes with the software and configurations needed for a production-ready environment to run AI/ML training workloads. This removes the need to download, configure, or upload lifecycle configuration scripts to Amazon S3. With fewer operational steps to prepare a clust ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Memory announces metadata for long-term memory. Published context: May 6, 2026. Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Memory now supports metadata on long-term memory (LTM) records, enabling agents to tag, filter, and retrieve memories using structured attributes alongside semantic search. You can define up to ten indexed keys per memory resource - with support for STRING, NUMBER, and STRING_LIST types - and use different operator types to filter re ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported AWS Backup improves performance for Amazon EKS cluster backups. Published context: May 5, 2026. AWS Backup for Amazon EKS now completes cluster state backups up to 10x faster. This performance improvement enables you to back up Amazon EKS clusters with a large numbers of namespaces and Kubernetes resources significantly faster, reducing backup windows from days to hours for the largest clusters. AWS Backup is a policy-based, fully managed, and cost-eff ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Announcing Agent Toolkit for AWS — help AI coding agents build effectively on AWS. Published context: May 6, 2026. Today, AWS is launching the Agent Toolkit for AWS, a production-ready suite of tools and guidance that helps AI coding agents build on AWS with fewer errors, lower token costs, and enterprise-grade security controls. The Agent Toolkit for AWS is the successor to the MCP servers, plugins, and skills available on AWS Labs . Developers using coding agents to bu ...

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 ...