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…

Duplicate patient records are one of the costliest problems in healthcare data management, scattering a patient's information, leading to redundant tests, missed diagnoses, billing errors, manual reconciliation, and broken analytics that count one patient as many. AWS HealthLake now supports…

AWS Transit Gateway now supports Policy-Based Routing (PBR), giving network administrators granular control over how traffic is forwarded across their AWS network. With PBR, forwarding decisions can be based on a combination of packet attributes including source and destination IP…