Sept. 28, 2026

AWS News Sep 21 - Sep 27

AWS News Sep 21 - Sep 27
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This week: Claude Opus five point five lands in Amazon Bedrock alongside OpenAI's new GPT six Sol and Luna models, CloudWatch Omni brings AI-first observability built on OpenTelemetry, and EventBridge relaunches custom event buses with strict ordering and cross-account sharing. Plus DynamoDB multi-region strong consistency expands to fifteen regions, and EMR gets Long Term Support releases.

AI & ML

  • Bedrock: Claude Opus 5.5, fewer tokens, cheaper than Opus 5; in GovCloud
  • Bedrock: OpenAI GPT-6 Sol & Luna, 1M-token context
  • Bedrock Knowledge Base: Salesforce & Zendesk native connectors
  • SageMaker HyperPod: Inference Gateway, up to 82% lower first-token latency
  • Glue Data Quality: GenAI rule recommendations in seconds

Observability

  • CloudWatch Omni: GA, AI-first OpenTelemetry observability incl. Azure
  • ECS: Live deployment timeline for canary/linear/blue-green, free
  • DataSync: Free dashboard for all task executions

Security & Compliance

  • Network Security Manager: GA, org-wide WAF/Shield, auto drift fixes
  • RDS PostgreSQL: Post-quantum TLS key exchange (v18+)
  • EVS: FedRAMP Class C in US regions
  • Security Hub: AI Inventory finds AI assets on Azure VMs
  • IAM: Outbound federation OIDC discovery via VPC endpoints
  • Transcribe: Customer-managed KMS keys for vocabularies/models

Databases

  • DynamoDB: Multi-region strong consistency in 15 regions, zero RPO
  • RDS SQL Server Dev: Multi-AZ Always On AGs, no Enterprise license
  • RDS: MySQL 5.7.44/8.0.46 Extended Support; SQL Server 2022 CU26
  • RDS Preview: PostgreSQL 19 Beta 4
  • ElastiCache Global Datastore: Tagging & tag-based access control

Analytics & Streaming

  • EMR: LTS releases, 36 months of fixes; Spark 4.1 + Iceberg v3
  • EMR 7.14: Spark 3.5.8, IPv6 & Spark Connect on EKS, 1TiB serverless
  • Kinesis Data Streams: Service-managed partition keys, no hot shards
  • EventBridge: New custom bus: cross-account, ordering, 1-yr retention

Contact Center & Messaging

  • Connect: Multi-agent AI via A2A protocol; routing step analytics
  • End User Messaging: WhatsApp voice calls
  • End User Messaging & SES: Agent skills for AWS MCP Server

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