AWS Security Agent now enables customers to run penetration tests against Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) resources shared from other AWS accounts within the same organization. This new capability allows security teams to perform comprehensive security assessments across their multi-account environments using…

Today, AWS announces the general availability of metal-24xl and metal-48xl sizes for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) M8gn and M8gb instances. These instances are powered by AWS Graviton4 processors to deliver up to 30% better compute performance than AWS…

Amazon Bedrock now enables server-side tool execution through Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Gateway integration with the Responses API. Customers can connect their AgentCore Gateway tools to Amazon Bedrock models, enabling server-side tool execution without client-side orchestration. With this launch, customers can…

Today, AWS announces AWS Observability as a Kiro power, enabling developers and operators to investigate infrastructure and application health issues faster with AI agent-assisted workflows in Kiro. Kiro Powers is a repository of curated and pre-packaged Model Context Protocol (MCP)…

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Custom for SQL Server now supports the latest General Distribution Release (GDR) updates for Microsoft SQL Server. This release includes support for SQL Server 2022 Cumulative Update and KB5072936 (16.00.4230.2.v1). The GDR updates address…

AWS Compute Optimizer makes it easier to identify snapshots that are created when snapshotting and deleting unattached Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) volumes by automatically applying an AWS-generated tag during creation. This enhancement improves visibility and tracking of EBS snapshots…