Amazon EC2 High Memory U7i-6TB instances (u7i-6tb.112xlarge) are now available in AWS Europe (Zurich) region. U7i instances are part of the AWS 7th generation and are powered by custom fourth-generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors (Sapphire Rapids). U7i-6TB instances offer 6…

Amazon Quick custom permissions now include deny by default, a governance setting that automatically restricts new AI capabilities before they reach users. Previously, new AI capabilities were available to all users on release, requiring administrators to react after the fact.…

Amazon Bedrock now supports SpaceXAI Grok 4.6, SpaceXAI's latest flagship model built for long-running agents and ambitious interactive and visual work. Grok 4.6 offers a 500K context window and configurable reasoning  efforts (low, medium, high, xhigh).  Grok 4.6 builds on previous…

Amazon Bedrock now supports the OpenAI GPT-5.6 models (Terra and Luna) in India, with India Geo cross-Region inference. Customers with regulatory requirements of in-country inferencing can now use OpenAI models at scale ensuring that inferencing is processed within India. Cross-Region…

Amazon S3 Metadata and annotations are now available in AWS GovCloud (US-East) and AWS GovCloud (US-West) Regions, giving you the easiest and fastest way to discover, understand, and enrich your S3 data. S3 Metadata automatically captures system-defined details like object…

AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) now enables AWS workloads in the AWS European Sovereign Cloud (Germany) Region to securely authenticate with external services using short-lived JSON Web Tokens (JWTs). The AWS European Sovereign Cloud is an independent cloud for…