AWS What's New

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Announcing consumption-based pricing for short-term memory in Amazon Bedrock AgentCore. Published context: October 12, 2026. Announcing consumption-based pricing for short-term memory in Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Amazon Bedrock AgentCore memory now prices short-term memory (STM) based on the data your agents ingest, retrieve, and store, replacing the previous flat rate per event. AgentCore memory gives agents in-session context through short-term memory and persistent knowledge acr ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon EMR now supports native data quality checks in Apache Spark jobs. Published context: October 12, 2026. Amazon EMR now validates data quality natively within Apache Spark jobs. Data engineering teams can catch quality issues inline before bad data reaches downstream systems, without building or maintaining separate validation infrastructure. Amazon EMR Data Quality, powered by AWS Glue, is available at no additional cost and uses the same declarative rules lan ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon S3 Vectors metadata pre-filtering is now available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. Published context: October 9, 2026. Amazon S3 Vectors metadata pre-filtering is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-East) and AWS GovCloud (US-West) Regions. Pre-filtering evaluates metadata filters before running similarity search, returning up to 5x more of the matching vectors when your filter is selective. S3 Vectors also adds a prefix match operator ($startsWith) for filtering on values ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio now supports custom Tooling blueprints. Published context: October 9, 2026. Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio now supports custom Tooling blueprints, giving domain administrators the ability to define the foundation of every project by using their own AWS CloudFormation templates. Administrators can tailor project environments to meet organization-specific requirements, such as IAM role names that comply with company naming standards 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 Connect Customer now provides automated checks to improve performance evaluation forms. Published context: October 9, 2026. Amazon Connect Customer now suggests changes to performance evaluation forms that improve the accuracy of evaluations automatically filled by AI. While setting up an evaluation form, managers can run an automated check that compares the form against best practices with a single click. Managers then receive a list of evaluation questions that are missing cont ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon GuardDuty RDS Protection now detects data exfiltration and destruction in Aurora and RDS databases. Published context: October 8, 2026. Amazon GuardDuty announces an expansion of RDS Protection that extends threat detection beyond login anomalies to identify data exfiltration and data destruction attacks targeting Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL and Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL databases. Available as RDS Protection for data activity, this new capability uses machine learning (ML)-based anomaly detect ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported AWS Security Hub now exports findings to S3 in CSV or JSON format. Published context: October 9, 2026. Today, AWS Security Hub announces support for exporting findings to Amazon S3 in CSV or JSON (OCSF) format. Security teams that need findings outside the console for use cases such as compliance reporting and audit evidence can now export findings from every findings page in the Security Hub console, including Threats, Exposure, Vulnerabilities, Posture Mana ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Anthropic Claude Sonnet 5.5 and Claude Opus 5.5 are now available on Kiro in AWS GovCloud (US). Published context: October 9, 2026. Two new Anthropic models are now available in the Kiro IDE and CLI for the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. Claude Opus 5.5 is Anthropic’s most capable Opus model yet and a step up from Opus 5 on long-running agentic coding work. Opus 5.5 thinks adaptively on every request, deciding how much effort each task needs, and completes tasks with roughly 40% fewer tool c ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon EC2 R8g instances now available in additional regions. Published context: October 9, 2026. Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) R8g instances are available in the AWS European Sovereign Cloud (Germany) region. These instances are powered by AWS Graviton4 processors and deliver up to 30% better performance compared to AWS Graviton3-based instances. Amazon EC2 R8g instances are ideal for memory-intensive workloads such as databa ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon Bedrock now supports reasoning summaries for OpenAI models. Published context: October 9, 2026. Amazon Bedrock now supports the reasoning.summary parameter for OpenAI models through the Responses API. This capability lets you request a human-readable summary of a model’s reasoning alongside its response, helping you understand its approach to complex tasks such as coding, analysis, and multi-step problem solving. Reasoning summaries give developers add ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported AWS Cost Explorer, Budgets, and Dashboards now support Amazon Bedrock product attributes. Published context: October 8, 2026. AWS Cost Explorer, AWS Budgets, and AWS Cost Management Dashboards now let you analyze Amazon Bedrock costs by product attributes, a new dimension that breaks down Bedrock cost by model, model provider, inference type, and feature. In Cost Explorer and Dashboards, you can group and filter costs by these attributes. In Budgets, you can filter budgets by the s ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported OpenAI GPT-6.1 Sol now supports Ultrafast mode on Amazon Bedrock. Published context: October 8, 2026. Today, AWS announces the availability of Ultrafast mode for GPT-6.1 Sol from OpenAI on Amazon Bedrock. Ultrafast mode provides faster inference for workloads where speed matters most. The Amazon Bedrock inference engine delivers the performance, security, and reliability required for production workloads. Use GPT-6.1 Sol Ultrafast for latency-sensitive appli ...