AWS What's New

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Claude Haiku 5.5 is now available on AWS. Published context: October 7, 2026. AWS now offers Claude Haiku 5.5, the fastest and most efficient model in the Claude 5.5 family, built for subagents and high-volume, cost-sensitive work. According to Anthropic, it costs around 75% less than Claude Haiku 4.5 for most tasks. Claude Haiku 5.5 is Anthropic’s most capable Haiku yet, a significant step up from Haiku 4.5 across coding, tool use, c ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported AWS Config now supports 77 new resource types. Published context: October 7, 2026. AWS Config now supports 77 additional AWS resource types across key services including Amazon EC2, Amazon S3 Files, and Amazon Q Business. This expansion provides greater coverage over your AWS environment, enabling you to more effectively discover, assess, audit, and remediate an even broader range of resources. With this launch, if you have enabled recordi ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Announcing Amazon Nova 2.5 Sonic with improved reasoning for voice agents. Published context: October 5, 2026. Today, we announce the general availability of Amazon Nova 2.5 Sonic, our latest speech-to-speech model for natural, real-time voice agents. This release brings improved reasoning, instruction following, and tool-calling accuracy to real-time voice applications. The model also delivers lower latency, enabling faster, more natural interactions. Nova 2.5 Sonic ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon EC2 Hpc8a instances are now available in Asia Pacific (Singapore). Published context: October 5, 2026. Starting today, Amazon EC2 Hpc8a instances are available in Asia Pacific (Singapore) region. These instances are powered by 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors (formerly code named Turin). With a maximum frequency of 4.5GHz, Hpc8a instances deliver up to 40% higher performance and up to 25% better price performance compared to Hpc7a instances, helping customers acce ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported AWS Private CA now provides detailed certificate issuance logs. Published context: October 5, 2026. AWS Private CA announces detailed certificate issuance logs, a new AWS CloudTrail service event that records the complete certificate content, issuing CA information, requester identity, and signing status for every issuance. You can use these events for compliance auditing, certificate inventory, algorithm migration tracking, and failed-issuance monitoring. 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 GLM 5.3 by Z.ai is now generally available on Amazon Bedrock. Published context: October 5, 2026. Amazon Bedrock now supports GLM 5.3 from Z.ai, giving you a powerful new option for agentic coding and long-horizon software engineering work. Customers using GLM 5.3 on Amazon Bedrock have access to the latest open weight model with the AWS security and compliance posture. GLM 5.3 is Z.ai’s flagship model, a mixture-of-experts architecture with 753B total p ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported AWS Service Availability Updates. Published context: September 29, 2026. We’re announcing availability changes to the following AWS services and features. Services moving to Maintenance Services moving to maintenance will no longer be accessible to new customers starting October 29, 2026. Customers already using these services and features can continue to do so. AWS will continue to operate and support these services and features ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported AWS Health introduces the version catalog for software lifecycle management. Published context: October 2, 2026. 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 ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon Kinesis Video Streams now supports VPC endpoints with AWS PrivateLink. Published context: September 30, 2026. Amazon Kinesis Video Streams now supports interface VPC endpoints powered by AWS PrivateLink , providing private connectivity from your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC). Traffic between your VPC and Kinesis Video Streams stays on the AWS network and is not exposed to the public internet, across the control plane and the video ingestion and playback ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon ECS adds Amazon VPC Lattice support for blue/green, linear, and canary deployments. Published context: October 2, 2026. Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) now supports built-in blue/green, linear, and canary deployment strategies for ECS services using Amazon VPC Lattice . Applications that use VPC Lattice for service-to-service communication across VPCs and AWS accounts can now take advantage of managed traffic shifting natively from Amazon ECS when rolling out up ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported AWS Deadline Cloud now supports ECS containers on Linux Service-Managed Fleets. Published context: September 29, 2026. AWS Deadline Cloud now supports running jobs using Docker containers from Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) on Linux-based service-managed fleets. Deadline Cloud is a fully managed service that helps teams run compute-intensive workloads in the cloud for visual effects, animation, product design, simulation, and gaming. Deadline Cloud customers can now ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported AgentCore Gateway supports private TLS certificates for VPC endpoints. Published context: October 2, 2026. Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Gateway now supports TLS certificates signed by private certificate authorities (CAs) on MCP, OpenAPI, and HTTP proxy targets. This feature enables you to connect securely to gateway targets that use TLS certificates issued by your own private certificate authority. With this feature, you can establish native connections to private e ...