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7/14/2026, 12:00:00 AM ~ 7/15/2026, 12:00:00 AM (UTC) Recent Announcements AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery now supports Amazon EBS volume initialization rate AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery (AWS DRS) now supports the Amazon EBS volume initialization rate, helping recovered volumes reach full performance faster during drills and recoveries. When DRS restores EBS volumes from snapshots, the data loads from Amazon S3 in the background, and I/O to blocks that haven’t loaded yet can be slower until initialization finishes....

7/13/2026, 12:00:00 AM ~ 7/14/2026, 12:00:00 AM (UTC) Recent Announcements OpenAI GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna now generally available on Amazon Bedrock GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna are now generally available on Amazon Bedrock, bringing the smartest family of models from OpenAI yet to Bedrock’s next-generation inference engine built for high-performance, security and reliability. GPT-5.6 sets a new standard for intelligence and efficiency, allowing you to solve harder problems in less time and with more intelligence per token....

7/10/2026, 12:00:00 AM ~ 7/13/2026, 12:00:00 AM (UTC) Recent Announcements Amazon EC2 network/EBS instances now available in additional regions Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) R8in, R8ib, R8idn, and R8idb instances are available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Tokyo) and Europe (Frankfurt, Ireland) regions. These instances are powered by custom sixth generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors, available only on AWS and feature the latest sixth generation AWS Nitro cards....

7/9/2026, 12:00:00 AM ~ 7/10/2026, 12:00:00 AM (UTC) Recent Announcements Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB now publishes database state change events to Amazon EventBridge Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB now publishes events to Amazon EventBridge when your database instances or clusters undergo state changes. Events are emitted for lifecycle operations including creation, deletion, compute and storage scaling, parameter group updates, maintenance windows, and reboot — covering both successful completions and failures.\n With this capability, customers can use Amazon EventBridge rules to programmatically react to database operations without polling the API for status....

7/8/2026, 12:00:00 AM ~ 7/9/2026, 12:00:00 AM (UTC) Recent Announcements AWS Builder Center Now Offers Free Sandbox Environments AWS Builder Center now lets builders request free, time-limited sandbox environments directly from eligible workshops, eliminating the need for a personal AWS account, credit card, or concerns about unexpected charges. Previously, workshops could only be completed using a builder’s own AWS account. With sandbox environments, builders of all skill levels can safely deploy resources, write code, and experiment in a pre-provisioned AWS account....