3/30/2026, 12:00:00 AM ~ 3/31/2026, 12:00:00 AM (UTC)
Recent Announcements
AWS Elemental MediaTailor now available in Europe (London)
AWS Elemental MediaTailor is now available in the Europe (London) AWS Region. MediaTailor is a personalized ad insertion and channel assembly service that enables video providers to serve targeted ads in live and on-demand video streams using server-side ad insertion (SSAI) and Server Guided Ad Insertion (SGAI), delivering a broadcast-quality viewing experience without the buffering or ad blockers associated with client-side ad insertion.\n With this expansion, customers serving viewers in Northern Europe can now run ad insertion workloads closer to their audience, reducing ad decisioning latency and improving ad fill rates. Customers using SSAI or SGAI workflows benefit from lower-latency ad stitching and ad tracking closer to their European viewers, and customers already using MediaTailor in Europe (Ireland) gain an additional region for redundancy and increased capacity.
To learn more, visit the AWS Elemental MediaTailor product page or the AWS Elemental MediaTailor User Guide. To get started, sign into the AWS Elemental MediaTailor console.
Amazon Athena launches Capacity Reservations in additional regions
Amazon Athena now offers Capacity Reservations in additional commercial AWS Regions. Capacity Reservations give you dedicated serverless capacity for your most important workloads. When you use Capacity Reservations, your queries run in isolation from other workloads in your account, and you control how many queries run concurrently.\n Capacity Reservations is now available in US West (N. California), Africa (Cape Town), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), Asia Pacific (Jakarta), Asia Pacific (Malaysia), Asia Pacific (Melbourne), Asia Pacific (Osaka), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Thailand), Asia Pacific (Taipei), Canada (Central), Canada West (Calgary), Europe (Frankfurt), Europe (London), Europe (Milan), Europe (Paris), Europe (Zurich), and Mexico (Central). To learn more, see Manage query processing capacity in the Athena User Guide.
Access Cluster Insights through the Amazon OpenSearch Service Console and Amazon EventBridge events
Amazon OpenSearch Service extends access to Cluster Insights through the AWS Management Console, in addition to the existing OpenSearch UI Dashboards. This launch makes it easier to review performance and resilience recommendations and make necessary configuration changes, all within the same Console. In addition, Cluster Insights now publishes insights as events to Amazon EventBridge.\n Cluster insights presents curated insights of a cluster’s operational health along with actionable recommendations to help prevent issues before they affect the stability or performance of the cluster. You can continue to use OpenSearch UI Dashboards for more detailed metrics, including index and shard-level data and top-N query analysis. In addition, with this release, you can monitor insights through Amazon EventBridge events. Cluster Insights is available at no additional cost for OpenSearch versions 2.17 or later in all Regions where OpenSearch Service is available. View the complete list of supported Regions here. To learn more about Cluster Insights, refer to our technical documentation.
Amazon SageMaker Data Agent is now available in the Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio Query Editor
Amazon SageMaker Data Agent is now available in the Query Editor in Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio, extending beyond notebook experience. With Data Agent in Query Editor, you can generate SQL queries from natural language, debug failed queries, and explore your data through a conversational, interactive experience.\n Data Agent brings the same conversational experience available in notebooks to your SQL analytics workflow. You can ask “calculate quarterly revenue growth rate by product category for 2025,” and the agent proposes a step-by-step plan for you to review before generating contextually accurate SQL for Amazon Redshift and Amazon Athena. This helps you build analytics queries faster, going from question to executable SQL without writing complex joins and aggregations manually. When a query fails, you can use Fix with AI to analyze the error and get suggested corrections. Data Agent maintains awareness of your connected data sources and schema information, so follow-up questions and modifications build on your previous context. To get started, navigate to a project in SageMaker Unified Studio, open the Query Editor, and open the agent panel. Data Agent in Query Editor is available in IAM domains in all AWS Regions where Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio is supported. For more information, see SageMaker Data Agent and Generative SQL in the Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio User Guide.
AWS Direct Connect adds CloudWatch metrics for BGP monitoring
AWS Direct Connect now publishes three new Amazon CloudWatch metrics for virtual interfaces (VIFs) that provide visibility into Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) session health and route counts. Network engineers and operations teams managing hybrid cloud connectivity can now monitor BGP sessions natively through CloudWatch without building custom solutions or polling APIs.\n These metrics solve critical monitoring gaps that previously required custom Lambda functions or on-premises network management tools. VirtualInterfaceBgpStatus reports BGP session state, enabling detection when sessions fail. VirtualInterfaceBgpPrefixesAccepted tracks prefixes from your on-premises network, allowing proactive alarms before reaching prefix limits that would cause BGP sessions to enter idle state. VirtualInterfaceBgpPrefixesAdvertised monitors routes AWS advertises to your network, helping validate configuration changes and detect silent route withdrawals that impact traffic even when BGP sessions remain up.
These metrics are available for private, public, and transit virtual interfaces in all commercial AWS Regions. You can integrate them with CloudWatch alarms, dashboards, and Amazon SNS for comprehensive BGP monitoring, reducing mean time to detect network issues and simplifying operations for multi-region and disaster recovery architectures. To learn more about AWS Direct Connect, visit https://aws.amazon.com/directconnect/.
AWS Blogs
AWS Japan Blog (Japanese)
- Amazon CloudFront Flat-Rate Pricing Plans: New Features and Expanded Support
- Customize your AWS Management Console experience using visual settings such as account color, region, and service display
- Weekly Generative AI with AWS — Week 2026/3/23
- AWS Weekly — 2026/3/23
- Hidden Costs: Uncover the hidden costs of cloud architectures with the AWS Well-Architected Framework
AWS News Blog
AWS Architecture Blog
AWS Big Data Blog
- Secure multi-warehouse Amazon Redshift access behind a Network Load Balancer using Microsoft Entra ID
- Securely connect Kafka client applications to your Amazon MSK Serverless cluster from different VPCs and AWS accounts
AWS Compute Blog
- Accelerate CPU-based AI inference workloads using Intel AMX on Amazon EC2
- Build high-performance apps with AWS Lambda Managed Instances
AWS for Industries
Artificial Intelligence
- How Ring scales global customer support with Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases
- Reimagine marketing at Volkswagen Group with generative AI
- Build a solar flare detection system on SageMaker AI LSTM networks and ESA STIX data
- Deliver hyper-personalized viewer experiences with an agentic AI movie assistant using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore and Amazon Nova Sonic 2.0
Networking & Content Delivery
- LexisNexis Risk Solutions success story: Enhancing global connectivity with AWS Cloud WAN
- Introducing CloudWatch Metrics for AWS Direct Connect Virtual Interface BGP Health and Prefix Count