Amazon Web Services

Policy in Amazon Bedrock AgentCore is now generally available, providing organizations with centralized, fine-grained controls for agent-tool interactions. Policy operates outside your agent code, enabling security, compliance, and operations teams to define tool access and input validation rules without modifying agent code. Teams can author policies using natural language that automatically converts to Cedar, the AWS open-source policy language. Policies are stored in a policy…

AWS Elemental MediaLive now supports Secure Reliable Transport (SRT) Listener mode for both inputs and outputs. With SRT Listener mode, MediaLive waits for connections rather than initiating them. Upstream sources push live video directly to MediaLive, and downstream systems pull encoded streams on demand. This simplifies network…

AWS IAM Identity Center now supports Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) via dual-stack endpoints in the AWS Asia Pacific (Taipei) and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions, completing global availability of this feature across all AWS Regions where IAM Identity Center is…

Amazon SageMaker HyperPod now supports API-driven Slurm configuration, enabling you to define Slurm topology and shared filesystem configurations directly in the cluster create and update APIs or through the AWS Console. SageMaker HyperPod helps you provision resilient clusters for running…

AWS Batch now allows you to configure a scale down delay for managed compute environments, helping reduce job processing delays for intermittent and periodic workloads. With the new minScaleDownDelayMinutes parameter, you can specify how long AWS Batch keeps instances running…

Today, Amazon CloudWatch Observability EKS add-on version 5.0.0 automatically enables CloudWatch Application Signals — Amazon's application performance monitoring (APM) capability — for all new installations and upgrades, eliminating the previous manual opt-in step. Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) is a…