Two new models are now available in the Kiro IDE and CLI for the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. Claude Opus 4.8 is the most intelligent Opus model, delivering stronger self-verification, more efficient tool calling, and better follow-through on long-horizon projects.…

Today, AWS announces a research preview of aws-bench, an open-source benchmark that measures how accurately and efficiently AI agents complete real-world AWS tasks. Model providers and AI researchers building agents that operate on AWS infrastructure need an objective, reproducible way…

Today, AWS announces the general availability of the AWS Lambda Durable Execution SDK for .NET, empowering C# developers to build resilient, long-running workflows using Lambda durable functions. With this SDK, developers can create multi-step applications like payment processing pipelines, AI…

Amazon CloudWatch Logs now supports Application Load Balancer (ALB) logs as vended logs, improving observability and simplifying debugging for network traffic patterns. You can now analyze ALB access, connection and health check logs directly in CloudWatch to gain insights into…

Amazon EC2 High Memory U7in-16TB instances (u7in-16tb.224xlarge) are now available in AWS South America (São Paulo) region, and U7in-24TB instances (u7in-24tb.224xlarge) are now available in AWS Europe (Ireland) region. U7i instances are part of the AWS 7th generation and are…

AWS Wickr now offers a managed Data Retention Service feature for Premium users, enabling organizations to retain conversations across their network for data archiving purposes. AWS Wickr is an enterprise-grade, secure collaboration product that provides end-to-end encrypted messaging, file management,…