Agentic AI workflows using Amazon Bedrock can accelerate wind farm planning from months to hours by orchestrating specialized agents for terrain analysis, turbine layout optimization, energy simulation, and reporting.
AWS Imagine for Nonprofits 2026 conference on March 19 will bring nonprofit leaders together to explore how AI and modern technology can transform their missions and drive systemic change.
AWS Outposts servers now support automated EC2 instance recovery using third-party storage, enabling high availability with zero data loss RPO through CloudWatch monitoring and Lambda-triggered failover to secondary servers.
Federal agencies can migrate from TIC 2.0 to TIC 3.0 architecture using AWS Transit Gateway to enable distributed cloud-based security controls, reducing latency and operational complexity while maintaining compliance with CISA requirements.
IBM watsonx Orchestrate now supports OpenAI's GPT-OSS 120B model through Amazon Bedrock, enabling enterprises to build and deploy AI agents with improved reasoning, long-context understanding, and reliable tool use without additional infrastructure management.
Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio now supports light mode for IAM-based domains, allowing users to choose between dark and light themes to improve readability and accessibility based on their preferences.
Amazon Redshift now supports nine new array functions for semi-structured data processing in the SUPER data type, enabling simplified searching, sorting, and transformation of arrays directly within SQL queries without complex custom logic.
Amazon Redshift now supports reusable templates for COPY operations, allowing you to store and reuse frequently used parameters to maintain consistency, reduce errors, and simplify maintenance across data ingestion operations.
Amazon EventBridge Scheduler increases its default CreateSchedule API quota to 5,000 requests per second across 11 AWS Regions, enabling customers to scale high-throughput schedule creation workloads without requesting additional quota increases.
Automate Amazon RDS backup and maintenance window adjustments for Daylight Saving Time transitions using EventBridge, Lambda, and CloudFormation to eliminate manual scheduling errors across multiple AWS accounts.
Amazon Redshift Serverless now automatically preserves datashare permissions during snapshot restores to the same namespace, eliminating manual re-granting and simplifying data sharing workflows.
Amazon EC2 R8g instances powered by AWS Graviton4 processors are now available in UAE, Mexico, and Zurich regions, offering up to 30% better performance for memory-intensive workloads.
Amazon OpenSearch Service expands OR2 and OM2 optimized instances to AWS GovCloud regions, delivering up to 26% higher indexing throughput than previous generations with improved price-performance for indexing-heavy workloads.
AWS highlights 50 promising early-stage EdTech startups through the GSV Cup that are leveraging AI to enhance human connections in learning across K12, higher education, and workforce development.
AWS Load Balancer Controller now provides general availability support for Kubernetes Gateway API, enabling standardized traffic management for both L4 and L7 protocols with improved role-based resource separation and cross-namespace routing capabilities.
The EUC Dashboard is a Cloud Intelligence Dashboards solution that combines Cost and Usage Report data with API-driven insights to help IT teams optimize Amazon WorkSpaces deployments, reduce costs, and gain comprehensive visibility into virtual desktop infrastructure usage and performance.
AWS Copilot CLI will reach end-of-support on June 12, 2026, with migration guidance provided to Amazon ECS Express Mode or AWS CDK for deploying containerized applications.
Dramaze, a freemium streaming platform, leverages AWS serverless architecture with Amazon Bedrock and AWS Elemental MediaConvert to deliver AI-enhanced short-form drama content across Asia and the Middle East, achieving 95% faster subtitle translation with just three engineers.
Catapult Sports uses AWS IoT services to power Vector 8, a next-generation athlete monitoring platform that enables professional sports teams to collect, analyze, and act on real-time performance data with 10-minute onboarding and 32x faster device updates.
Organizations must prioritize workforce readiness through three key questions—are you ready for AI, where are you on your journey, and how do you measure success—to successfully move AI projects from pilots to production at scale.
Amazon EC2 I8ge instances are now available in Europe (Ireland), offering up to 120TB local NVMe storage, 40% better compute performance, and 65% better storage performance compared to previous generation instances.
Amazon EC2 M8g instances powered by AWS Graviton4 processors are now available in four additional regions and deliver up to 30% better performance than Graviton3-based instances for general-purpose workloads.
Database Savings Plans now supports Amazon OpenSearch Service and Amazon Neptune Analytics, allowing customers to save up to 35% on these services with a one-year commitment.
AWS Elastic Beanstalk now offers AI-powered environment analysis using Amazon Bedrock to help developers quickly identify root causes and receive recommended solutions for environment health issues.
Multi-party approval now supports approval team baselining, allowing administrators to run test approvals through the AWS Organizations console to verify approver availability, identify inactive members, and ensure approval workflows function effectively for sensitive operations.
AWS Shield network security director findings are now available in AWS Security Hub, identifying missing or misconfigured network security services like AWS WAF, VPC security groups, and ACLs across your AWS Organization with remediation recommendations.
AWS successfully completed its 2026 annual Dubai Electronic Security Centre (DESC) certification audit as a Tier 1 Cloud Service Provider, expanding DESC-certified services in the Middle East (UAE) Region from 98 to 108 services.
AWS CDK Property Injection automatically applies organizational default properties to constructs without modifying existing code, enabling consistent infrastructure standardization across teams and repositories.
