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…

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,…

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…

AWS Lambda now supports OAuth authentication for self-managed Apache Kafka event source mappings (ESM), including Kafka clusters that customers run themselves and managed offerings such as Confluent Cloud, Aiven, and Redpanda. With this launch, customers can authenticate their Lambda Kafka consumers…

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.…

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,…