On January 20, 2026 Amazon announced quarterly security and critical updates for Amazon Corretto Long-Term Supported (LTS) versions of OpenJDK. Corretto 25.0.2, 21.0.10, 17.0.18, 11.0.30, and 8u482 are now available for download. Amazon Corretto is a no-cost, multi-platform, production-ready distribution…

Amazon Elastic VMware Service (Amazon EVS) now supports the ability to specify supported combinations of VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) and ESX software versions when setting up your EVS environments and hosts. Amazon EVS lets you run VCF natively within your Amazon…

Today, Amazon Bedrock announces the expansion of the Reserved service tier designed for workloads requiring predictable performance and guaranteed tokens-per-minute capacity. The Reserved tier provides the ability to reserve prioritized compute capacity, keeping service levels predictable for your mission critical…

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) now supports faster Blue/Green Deployments switchover, reducing your primary database, or writer node, upgrade downtime to typically five seconds or lower for single-Region configurations. Blue/Green Deployment creates a staging environment (Green) to test changes…

AWS IoT Device Management now offers the managed integrations feature in the Middle East (UAE) region. Organizations operating in this region can now better serve their local customers, helping them build unified Internet of Things (IoT) solutions that can easily…

Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports bare metal instances with Bring Your Own License (BYOL) license for Oracle Standard Edition 2. You can use M7i, R7i, X2iedn, X2idn, X2iezn, M6i, M6id, M6in, R6i, R6id, and R6in bare metal instances at…