awsAug 10, 2026

AWS Weekly Roundup: AWS Heroes Summit, Web Search on Amazon Bedrock, Dogwood, Kiro Crew, and more (August 10, 2026) | Amazon Web Services (opens in new tab)

The August 10, 2026 AWS Weekly Roundup highlights the AWS Heroes Summit and several launches focused on AI agents, modernization, data retrieval, and developer productivity. Major updates include web search for Amazon Bedrock, vector search in DynamoDB, dedicated AgentCore runtime instances, and faster Lambda networking. AWS also introduced Dogwood for temporal agent governance, portable Agent Plugins, and Kiro Crew for persistent multi-agent development. ## AWS Heroes Summit - AWS Heroes from around the world gathered for technical collaboration, deep dives, and feedback sessions with AWS teams. - The invite-only event featured: - A fireside chat with AWS CEO Matt Garman. - An AMA with James Hamilton. - Breakout sessions led by AWS product teams. - The summit emphasized knowledge sharing, community support, and collaboration between AWS experts and internal teams. ## New Amazon Bedrock and AI Capabilities - **Web Search on Amazon Bedrock** - OpenAI models, including GPT-5.4, GPT-5.5, and GPT-5.6 variants, can browse and retrieve current information from the internet. - Applications can use real-time web content while keeping data within a secured AWS environment with zero data egress. - **Runtime Instances for Bedrock AgentCore** - AI agents can run on dedicated runtime instances. - This provides more predictable performance, execution control, and costs. - **Vector Search for DynamoDB** - Applications can store and query vector embeddings alongside existing DynamoDB data. - This supports semantic retrieval and grounding for AI agents without deploying a separate vector database. ## Modernization and Lambda Networking - **AWS Transform continuous modernization** - Now generally available for analyzing and remediating technical debt across repositories. - Supports ongoing modernization of mainframe and legacy workloads rather than one-time migration projects. - Integrates with the AWS Transform Kiro Power and agent plugins. - **Higher Lambda bandwidth** - Lambda functions configured with at least 2 GB of memory and running outside a VPC can receive proportional network bandwidth increases. - Bandwidth ranges from 625 Mbps at 2 GB to 3,000 Mbps at 10 GB. - The change benefits data-intensive workloads and communication with other AWS services. ## Agent Governance and Portability - **Dogwood** - AWS open-sourced Dogwood, a governance language designed for AI agents. - It extends Cedar policies with temporal conditions. - AgentCore temporal policies can make decisions based on an agent’s prior actions within a session, not only the current request. - **Agent Plugins** - AWS supports an open, vendor-neutral specification for packaging agent extensions. - Developers can package an extension once and use it across compatible tools such as Kiro, VS Code, and Cursor. ## Kiro Crew - Kiro Crew provides a persistent workspace for collaborative, multi-agent development. - It is designed for work spanning multiple repositories, tools, and days rather than a single chat session. - Developers can run several efforts in parallel or delegate tasks to subagents that report results later. AWS’s latest updates point toward more capable, governed, and portable AI-agent workflows, while also improving modernization tools and infrastructure performance. Developers can explore the related documentation, AWS events, and the AWS Builder Center for further resources.

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awsAug 5, 2026

Amazon DynamoDB now supports real-time vector search at any scale | Amazon Web Services (opens in new tab)

Amazon DynamoDB now offers native vector search, allowing applications to store embeddings beside operational data and query them without a separate vector database. The serverless service provides single-digit millisecond latency, 99%+ recall, horizontal scaling, and support for trillions of vectors. This removes synchronization pipelines, data movement, and additional infrastructure for applications already built on DynamoDB. ## Native Vector Search in DynamoDB - Embeddings are stored directly in DynamoDB as lists of floating-point numbers. - Similarity searches use the `SearchVectors` API and return up to 100 ranked results. - Vector indexes scale horizontally without storage limits or servers to manage. - Pricing follows DynamoDB’s pay-per-request model. - Common use cases include: - Agent memory - Retrieval-augmented generation - Recommendations - Personalized experiences - Anomaly detection ## Supported Search Capabilities - Supports vectors with up to 4,096 dimensions. - Offers three distance functions: - **Cosine**: Useful for semantic text similarity. - **Euclidean**: Useful when vector magnitude is meaningful. - **Dot product**: Useful when both direction and magnitude affect relevance. - Supports optional partition keys to distribute data and scope searches. - Supports inline exact-match filters, but not range operators such as `BETWEEN` or `BEGINS_WITH`. - Search results can include operational attributes through index projections. ## Adding Embeddings to an Existing Table - Generate embeddings with a model such as Amazon Bedrock Titan Text Embeddings, Cohere Embed, or OpenAI embeddings. - Store them in a new attribute, such as `descriptionEmbedding`, using `UpdateItem` or other AWS tooling. - No new DynamoDB data type or schema migration is required because vectors use the existing `List` and `Number` types. ## Creating and Using a Vector Index - Create a vector index on the embedding attribute. - Configure: - Index name - Vector attribute - Embedding dimensions - Distance function - Optional partition key - Filter attributes - Generate a query embedding with the same model used for stored data. - Call `SearchVectors` with the query vector, result count, partition key, and filters. - Scores depend on the distance function: - Lower scores indicate greater similarity for Cosine and Euclidean distance. - Higher scores indicate greater similarity for Dot product. ## Example: Product Catalog Search - A `ProductCatalog` table stores product details such as `productId`, `name`, `description`, `category`, `marketplace`, and `price`. - Product descriptions receive embeddings stored in `descriptionEmbedding`. - A `ProductDescriptionIndex` can use: - `marketplace` as the partition key - `category` as an inline filter - Cosine distance for semantic matching - A query such as “lightweight running shoes for summer” can return the five most relevant footwear products in the US marketplace, along with attributes such as name and price. DynamoDB vector search is best suited to applications whose operational data already resides in DynamoDB and need semantic retrieval without operating a second database or synchronization system.

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awsJul 20, 2026

AWS Weekly Roundup: One-click Lambda setup prompt, OpenAI GPT-5.6 models on Bedrock, and more (July 20, 2026) | Amazon Web Services (opens in new tab)

The AWS Weekly Roundup highlights new tools for AI-assisted serverless development, including a one-click Lambda setup prompt that configures coding agents with AWS Serverless skills and MCP. It also covers major service updates such as OpenAI models on Bedrock, faster S3 storage-class transitions, self-managed Lambda code storage, and Cognito password-hash imports. Additional stories include SQS’s 20th anniversary, open agent protocols, DynamoDB bulk operations, and a resolved Cost Explorer billing-data incident. ## One-Click Lambda Setup for Coding Agents - The Lambda console now provides a prompt that configures AI coding agents with: - AWS Serverless skills - The Serverless Model Context Protocol (MCP) server - Embedded serverless best practices - The setup guide supports Claude Code, Kiro, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Codex, Devin Desktop, and OpenCode. - Developers can copy the setup URL into their preferred agent: ```text fetch https://docs.aws.amazon.com/lambda/latest/dg/samples/aws-lambda-agent-setup.md ``` - AWS’s Agent Toolkit can also install the AWS MCP Server, providing current AWS knowledge and controlled resource access. ## Major AWS Service Launches - **OpenAI GPT-5.6 models on Amazon Bedrock** - Sol: flagship reasoning - Terra: balanced performance - Luna: faster, lower-cost inference - All are available through Bedrock’s Responses API and its high-performance inference engine. - **Same-day S3 transitions** - Objects can transition to S3 Standard-IA or S3 One Zone-IA on the day they are created. - The previous 30-day minimum retention period in S3 Standard no longer applies. - These classes can reduce storage costs by up to 40% while retaining millisecond access. - Suitable for backups, log analytics, and compliance data that becomes cold quickly. - **Self-managed Lambda code storage** - Lambda can reference code directly from customer-owned S3 buckets. - Lambda no longer needs to create intermediate copies. - This removes code-storage limits and can shorten activation times after deployments. - **Cognito password-hash imports** - CSV user imports can now include password hashes. - Users can sign in immediately with existing credentials instead of resetting passwords. - Import configuration specifies the source system’s hashing algorithm. ## Additional AWS Updates - **Amazon SQS at 20** - SQS continues to provide scalable decoupling between message producers and consumers, two decades after its public launch. - **Open protocols with Strands Agents SDK** - An example demonstrates how MCP, A2A, UTCP, AG-UI, and x402 can work together when building AI agents. - **Open-source DynamoDB Bulk Executor** - Performs large-scale table operations without custom code. - Supports `count`, `find`, `delete`, and `update` commands. - **Kiro CLI for AWS Support** - MCP integration combines investigation, documentation lookup, and support-case creation. - Examples cover Glue failures, Lambda cold starts, and WAF false positives. ## Cost Explorer Incident - Some customers saw inaccurate estimated billing and usage data in Cost Explorer. - The issue generated erroneous budget and cost-anomaly alerts. - AWS resolved the incident and is conducting a retrospective to improve billing-incident prevention and response. AWS’s latest releases emphasize faster serverless development, more capable AI tooling, lower-cost storage, and easier automation of operational tasks. Developers should explore the Lambda agent setup and Agent Toolkit while reviewing the new storage, identity, and bulk-operation capabilities for relevant workloads.

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awsFeb 9, 2026

AWS Weekly Roundup: Claude Opus 4.6 in Amazon Bedrock, AWS Builder ID Sign in with Apple, and more (February 9, 2026) | Amazon Web Services (opens in new tab)

The February 9, 2026 AWS roundup highlights updates across infrastructure, security, databases, and AI. Major announcements include new EC2 instances, cross-account DynamoDB replication, improved identity controls, CloudFront mutual TLS, Claude Opus 4.6 in Bedrock, and structured model outputs. AWS also announced AWS Community Day Romania for April 23–24, 2026. ## Compute, Networking, and Configuration - **New EC2 C8id, M8id, and R8id instances** - Powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors. - Deliver up to 43% higher performance and 3.3× more memory bandwidth than previous-generation instances. - **AWS Network Firewall price reductions** - Reduces hourly and data-processing costs for NAT Gateways service-chained with Network Firewall secondary endpoints. - Removes additional data-processing charges for Advanced Inspection and TLS inspection. - **Amazon ECS Network Load Balancer support** - Enables managed linear and canary deployments for applications using NLBs. - Supports TCP/UDP workloads, low-latency services, long-lived connections, and static IP requirements. - **Expanded AWS Config coverage** - Adds support for 30 resource types across services such as Amazon EKS, Amazon Q, and AWS IoT. - Improves resource discovery, auditing, assessment, and remediation. ## Databases and Operations - **Cross-account DynamoDB global table replication** - Allows multi-Region, multi-active tables to replicate across AWS accounts. - Improves resilience, account-level workload isolation, and independent security and governance controls. - **Improved Amazon RDS connection experience** - Generates connection snippets for Java, Python, Node.js, `psql`, and other tools. - Adjusts examples automatically for authentication settings, including IAM token-based authentication. - Adds CloudShell integration for connecting to databases directly from the RDS console. ## Identity and Security - **AWS Builder ID adds Sign in with Apple** - Apple users can access services such as AWS Builder Center, Training and Certification, re:Post, AWS Startups, and Kiro. - Complements the existing Google sign-in option. - **More identity-provider claim validation in AWS STS** - Supports selected claims from Google, GitHub, CircleCI, and OCI. - These claims can be used as condition keys in IAM trust policies and resource control policies for more precise federated-access controls and data perimeters. - **Account names in the AWS Management Console** - Displays the account name in the navigation bar, making it easier to distinguish between authorized AWS accounts. - **CloudFront origin mutual TLS** - Lets CloudFront authenticate to origins using certificates. - Helps restrict backend access to verified CloudFront distributions across AWS, on-premises, third-party cloud, and external CDN environments. ## AI and Amazon Bedrock - **Claude Opus 4.6 available in Amazon Bedrock** - Anthropic’s latest model targets complex coding, agentic tasks, enterprise workflows, and professional work requiring deep reasoning and reliability. - **Structured outputs in Amazon Bedrock** - Models can return responses matching developer-defined JSON schemas. - Reduces the need for prompt-based JSON enforcement and additional validation, making production integrations more predictable. ## Upcoming AWS Event - **AWS Community Day Romania — April 23–24, 2026** - Features more than 10 technical sessions from AWS Heroes, Solutions Architects, and industry experts. - Includes networking opportunities for developers, architects, entrepreneurs, and students. These updates emphasize stronger infrastructure performance, better multi-account governance, more secure authentication, and more reliable AI application development. Teams should evaluate the new services based on their networking, resiliency, identity, and structured-output requirements.

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awsFeb 2, 2026

AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon Bedrock agent workflows, Amazon SageMaker private connectivity, and more (February 2, 2026) | Amazon Web Services (opens in new tab)

The AWS Weekly Roundup highlights new capabilities for AI agents, private connectivity, encryption management, and resilience testing. Major launches include Bedrock server-side tools and longer prompt caching, SageMaker Unified Studio support for PrivateLink, and S3 encryption changes without data movement. Additional updates strengthen event-driven architectures, observability, zero-trust access, and AI-assisted AWS deployments. ## AI Agents and Developer Workflows - Amazon Bedrock’s Responses API now supports server-side tools such as web search, code execution, and database updates within AWS security boundaries. - Bedrock also offers a one-hour prompt-cache TTL for select Anthropic Claude models, improving performance and reducing costs for long-running, multi-turn agents. - AWS MCP Server deployment SOPs, currently in preview, let agents deploy applications from natural-language prompts using CDK, CloudFormation, and CI/CD workflows. - The deployment preview supports React, Vue.js, Angular, and Next.js through tools such as Kiro, Cursor, and Claude Code. - CloudWatch Application Signals integration with Kiro provides AI-assisted investigation of service health, SLO compliance, and observability issues. ## Private Connectivity and Zero-Trust Security - SageMaker Unified Studio now supports AWS PrivateLink, allowing VPC traffic to remain within the AWS network instead of traversing the public internet. - IAM policies can govern private SageMaker connectivity for stricter security and compliance requirements. - AWS Verified Access guidance demonstrates centralized zero-trust application access across multi-account environments using IAM Identity Center and AWS RAM. - AWS Network Firewall adds predefined web categories for identifying and controlling generative AI application traffic, with full-URL filtering available alongside TLS inspection. ## Storage, Encryption, and Database Performance - Amazon S3’s `UpdateObjectEncryption` API changes encryption for existing objects without moving or re-uploading data. - Supported operations include switching from SSE-S3 to SSE-KMS, rotating customer-managed KMS keys, and standardizing encryption with S3 Batch Operations. - Amazon Keyspaces table pre-warming prepares tables for predictable high-throughput workloads, reducing throttling and cold-start delays during traffic spikes. - Pre-warming works with on-demand and provisioned capacity, including multi-Region tables. - DynamoDB MRSC global tables now integrate with AWS Fault Injection Service, enabling simulated Regional failures and validation of replication and application resilience. ## Event-Driven Systems and Observability - EventBridge’s event payload limit increased from 256 KB to 1 MB, allowing events to carry richer JSON, telemetry, ML, and generative AI data without external storage or fragmentation. - Lambda’s enhanced observability for Kafka event source mappings adds CloudWatch logs and metrics for polling, scaling, processing state, permissions, and failures. - The feature supports both Amazon MSK and self-managed Apache Kafka sources. ## CloudFormation and Community - AWS’s 2025 CloudFormation review covers improved troubleshooting, drift-aware change sets, stack refactoring, StackSets, the CloudFormation language server, and IaC MCP tooling. - AWS Community Day Romania will take place April 23–24, 2026, featuring technical sessions, AWS experts, and networking opportunities. Together, these updates point toward more private, observable, resilient, and AI-assisted AWS operations. Teams should evaluate the new capabilities against their security, scalability, and automation needs, particularly Bedrock agent tooling, S3 encryption updates, PrivateLink connectivity, and resilience testing.

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awsDec 2, 2025

Introducing Database Savings Plans for AWS Databases (opens in new tab)

AWS has expanded its flexible pricing model to include managed database services with the launch of Database Savings Plans, offering up to 35% cost reduction for consistent usage. By committing to a specific hourly spend over a one-year term, customers can maintain cost efficiency across multiple accounts, resource types, and AWS Regions. This initiative simplifies financial management for organizations running diverse data-driven and AI applications while providing the agility to modernize architectures without losing discounted rates. ### Flexibility and Modernization Support * The plan allows customers to switch between different database engines and deployment types, such as moving from provisioned instances to serverless options, without affecting their savings. * Usage is portable across AWS Regions, enabling global organizations to shift workloads as business needs evolve while retaining their commitment benefits. * The model supports ongoing cost optimization by automatically applying discounts to new instance types, sizes, or eligible database offerings as they become available. ### Service Coverage and Tiered Discounts * Database Savings Plans cover a wide array of services, including Amazon Aurora, RDS, DynamoDB, ElastiCache, DocumentDB, Neptune, Keyspaces, Timestream, and AWS DMS. * Serverless deployments offer the most significant savings, providing up to 35% off standard on-demand rates. * Provisioned instances across supported services deliver discounts of up to 20%. * Specific workloads for Amazon DynamoDB and Amazon Keyspaces receive tailored rates, with up to 18% savings for on-demand throughput and up to 12% for provisioned capacity. ### Implementation and Cost Management * Customers can purchase and manage these plans through the AWS Billing and Cost Management Console or via the AWS CLI. * Discounts are applied automatically on an hourly basis to all eligible usage; any consumption exceeding the hourly commitment is billed at the standard on-demand rate. * Integrated cost management tools allow users to analyze their coverage and utilization, ensuring spend remains predictable even as application usage patterns fluctuate. For organizations with stable or growing database requirements, Database Savings Plans offer a low-risk path to reducing operational expenses. Customers should utilize the AWS Cost Explorer to analyze their historical usage and determine an appropriate hourly commitment level to maximize their return on investment over a one-year term.

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