AWS Directory Service now allows you to upgrade your AWS Managed Microsoft AD directory from Standard Edition to Enterprise Edition directly through the AWS Management Console, AWS CLI, and API without migrating to a new directory or re-joining your existing…

Amazon MSK Express brokers now delivers data to Amazon S3 general purpose buckets, providing a fully managed capability to deliver Apache Kafka data in Amazon S3 for downstream processing in the easiest and most reliable way. This capability automatically scales…

On 7/30, OpenAI announced updated pricing for GPT-5.6 Terra and GPT-5.6 Luna.  GPT-5.6 Terra is the balanced model for everyday production work, delivering GPT-5.5-level performance at lower cost. GPT-5.6 Luna is the fast, affordable model for high-volume inference tasks where…

Amazon MSK Express brokers now deliver data to streaming tables for Apache Iceberg, a new capability that continuously materializes Apache Kafka topics as Apache Iceberg tables on Amazon S3 Tables. Amazon MSK data delivery to streaming tables can reduce the…

xAI's Grok 4.3 model is now available on Amazon Bedrock in AWS GovCloud (US-West). With this launch, xAI joins Amazon Bedrock as a model provider in AWS GovCloud (US-West), giving you even more choice as you build generative AI applications…

You can now run OpenSearch version 3.7 on Amazon OpenSearch Service. OpenSearch 3.7 introduces improvements in vector search performance, search relevance, and Query Insights. With this launch, 1-bit scalar quantization on the Faiss and Lucene engines compresses vectors, reducing the storage…