5/28/2026, 12:00:00 AM ~ 5/29/2026, 12:00:00 AM (UTC)

Recent Announcements

Monitor AWS Budgets directly in Billing and Cost Management Dashboards with new Budgets widget

Today, AWS Billing and Cost Management (BCM) announces support for Budgets widgets in BCM Dashboards, giving you the flexibility to customize your cost management console with the views that matter most to your organization. You can now monitor AWS Budgets alongside Cost Explorer reports and Savings Plans and Reserved Instance coverage and utilization reports, all in a single, tailored dashboard.\n Previously, reviewing budget performance required navigating to a separate console page. Now, finance teams and cloud administrators can add one or more Budgets widgets to any BCM Dashboard, displaying budget name, budgeted amount, actual spend, and forecasted amount. You can filter budgets by name, threshold, and budget type, directly within the widget, and choose which budgets appear on each dashboard, reducing the time spent switching between console pages and enabling faster budget monitoring across teams. Budget widgets are fully integrated with dashboard export capabilities, allowing you to include budget data in scheduled email reports or download it as CSV or PDF, making it easier to share budget status with stakeholders without manual data gathering. 

Budgets widgets for BCM Dashboards are available in all AWS commercial Regions at no additional charge. To learn more, visit our User Guide.

AWS IoT Core adds APIs for MQTT connection management

Today, AWS IoT Core launches two new MQTT connection management APIs, GetConnection and ListSubscriptions, enabling you to easily access MQTT client connection and subscription information for your Internet of Things (IoT) devices. These APIs help you troubleshoot connectivity issues, monitor client behavior, and audit connection patterns across your device fleet.\n The GetConnection API gives you visibility into an IoT device connection by retrieving detailed connection information, including connection status, MQTT session details, and optional socket-level data such as source and target IP addresses, ports, and client VPC endpoint ID, controlled via granular IAM policies. The ListSubscriptions API complements this by returning all topic subscriptions, including QoS levels for a client’s MQTT session, for connected and offline clients with persistent sessions. This enables you to validate and identify overlapping or unnecessary subscriptions that may impact solution performance. Together with the existing DeleteConnection API, these new APIs provide a comprehensive MQTT connection management experience.

These APIs are now available in all AWS regions where AWS IoT Core is supported. To learn more, visit the AWS IoT Core documentation and AWS IoT Core API reference guide.

AWS Organizations emits CloudTrail events for account membership changes

AWS Organizations now automatically emits CloudTrail events to your management account whenever accounts join or leave your organization. These new events—AccountJoinedOrganization and AccountDepartedOrganization—provide security teams and cloud administrators with enhanced visibility into organizational membership changes, helping detect unauthorized activities and potential security incidents that previously could go unnoticed. \n The AccountJoinedOrganization event captures how an account joined an organization (Created or Invited) and the join timestamp, while the AccountDepartedOrganization event records how an account departed —Left for accounts that departed voluntarily, Removed for accounts removed by the management account, or  Cleaned for accounts that were permanently closed along with the departure timestamp. 

You can leverage these events to create CloudWatch alarms or Amazon EventBridge rules for real-time notifications, enabling rapid response to suspicious organizational changes. This capability supports critical use cases including fraud detection, compliance auditing, security monitoring, and incident investigation across your AWS environment.

AWS announces general availability of the next generation of AWS Resilience Hub

Today, AWS announces the general availability of the next generation of AWS Resilience Hub, a central location in the AWS console that helps platform engineering and site reliability teams assess and strengthen the resilience of their critical workloads running on AWS. This new update expands on AWS Resilience Hub’s existing experience for meeting resilience objectives by introducing a new application model, dependency discovery, generative AI-powered failure mode analysis, modular resilience policies, and organization-wide reporting.\n With the next generation of Resilience Hub, teams model applications using a three-level hierarchy — systems, user journeys, and services — that reflects how these applications deliver business value. Through dependency discovery assessments, maintain up-to-date visibility into the AWS services, internal endpoints, and third-party endpoints that your services rely on. A generative AI-powered failure mode assessment analyzes your services against AWS Well-Architected best practices, the AWS Resilience Analysis Framework, and the organization’s resilience policies, generating prioritized, actionable recommendations. AWS Organizations integration enables central teams to define resilience policies and monitor posture across all accounts and regions from a single dashboard.

The next generation of the AWS Resilience Hub is available in all AWS Regions where Resilience Hub is offered. For more information about the AWS Regions where AWS Resilience Hub is available, see the AWS Region table.

To get started, visit the AWS console. To learn more about the next generation of AWS Resilience Hub, see the product page, or visit the AWS News Blog. 

Existing AWS Resilience Hub customers can continue using their current experience and adopt the next generation of AWS Resilience Hub at their own pace. For guidance, see the migration user guide.

Amazon Connect Customer expands generative AI-powered post-contact summaries to eight new languages

Amazon Connect Customer now supports generative AI-powered post-contact summaries in eight additional language families: Portuguese, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. Post-contact summaries also now support non-US variations of English, including British English, Australian English, and other regional locales, ensuring summaries reflect locally appropriate spelling and terminology.\n Generative AI-powered post-contact summaries provide agents and managers with concise, structured overviews of customer conversations across voice, chat, and email channels, eliminating the need to read full transcripts. With this expansion, organizations can automatically generate summaries in the language of the conversation, helping agents complete after-contact work faster and enabling managers to review contacts across languages. For example, a global support organization can now generate post-contact summaries for calls handled in French, German, or Japanese, giving supervisors visibility into service quality across all regions.

The newly supported languages are available in all AWS Regions where Amazon Connect Customer post-contact summaries are available. To learn more, refer to View generative AI-powered post-contact summaries in the Amazon Connect Customer Administrator Guide. To learn more about Amazon Connect Customer, visit the Amazon Connect Customer website.

Claude Opus 4.8 is now available on AWS

AWS  now offers Claude Opus 4.8 – Anthropic’s most capable generally available model to date – delivering meaningful advances across agentic coding, professional knowledge work, and long-running autonomous tasks for developers and enterprises building production AI applications.\n Claude Opus 4.8 can perform longer autonomous runs, deeper reasoning, and consistency to be trusted with production work. For coding, the Opus 4.8 reads codebases like an engineer, plans before it edits, and holds context across long sessions in real repositories. For agentic tasks, it is better at finding paths around obstacles instead of stalling, recovering from its own errors, and knowing when to ask for help versus when to keep going. For knowledge work, it better synthesizes across long documents and complex sources, self-checks its output, and delivers structured deliverables that hold up to review.

Customers have two ways to access Claude Opus 4.8: Amazon Bedrock and Claude Platform on AWS.

Amazon Bedrock keeps your data within AWS infrastructure and provides access to Claude Opus 4.8 through a unified service with AWS-managed features like Guardrails, Knowledge Bases, and regional data residency. To learn more, see Amazon Bedrock documentation  and regional availability..

Claude Platform on AWS gives you direct access to Anthropic’s native platform experience and capabilities via the AWS Console. Build, test, and deploy with the same APIs, features, and console experience you’d get working with Anthropic directly, unified with AWS billing and authentication. To get started, see the Claude Platform on AWS documentation

DynamoDB Streams now supports AWS PrivateLink for FIPS endpoints in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions

Amazon DynamoDB Streams now supports AWS PrivateLink for FIPS (Federal Information Processing Standard) endpoints in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. DynamoDB Streams captures time-ordered sequences of item-level modifications in DynamoDB tables, enabling real-time data processing and event-driven architectures. This enhancement allows government agencies and organizations with federal compliance requirements to establish private connectivity between their VPCs and DynamoDB Streams FIPS endpoints without exposing traffic to the public internet.\n This capability helps customers meet strict federal compliance and regulatory requirements while simplifying their network architecture. By keeping all traffic within the AWS network infrastructure, organizations can securely process real-time data streams, implement compliant change data capture (CDC) solutions, and build event-driven architectures that adhere to federal security standards. Government agencies operating in GovCloud regions can now leverage DynamoDB Streams for secure data streaming applications while maintaining the enhanced security and privacy that AWS PrivateLink provides.

AWS PrivateLink support for DynamoDB Streams FIPS endpoints is available in AWS GovCloud (US-East) and AWS GovCloud (US-West) Regions, as well as US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (N. California), US West (Oregon), Canada (Central), and Canada West (Calgary).

 To learn more, visit the Amazon DynamoDB Streams PrivateLink documentation and the AWS PrivateLink page.

Amazon WorkSpaces Applications adds support for Windows Desktop OS

Amazon WorkSpaces Applications now supports the ability to set up streaming resources powered by Windows Desktop operating systems using Bring Your Own License (BYOL). Customers can now bring their existing Windows Desktop licenses to support their eligible Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise, delivering a consistent and familiar desktop experience as users move between on-premises and virtual desktop environments.\n With BYOL support on WorkSpaces Applications, the operating system is hosted on hardware dedicated to the customer’s AWS account, enabling customers to stream Windows desktop applications and full desktop experiences at scale. Customers benefit from cost savings by bringing their existing Windows Desktop OS licenses, eliminating OS fees so they only pay for compute and streaming infrastructure. When the local device and the streaming session both run the same Windows Desktop OS, users apply the same workflows, shortcuts, and navigation in both environments. This removes the cognitive overhead of adapting to a different desktop experience when switching between local and remote work, reducing onboarding time. Windows Desktop for WorkSpaces Applications is available in multiple AWS Regions. For the list of supported regions, see Amazon WorkSpaces Applications BYOL documentation. To take advantage of BYOL on WorkSpaces Applications, organizations must meet Microsoft’s licensing requirements and commit to running a minimum number of streaming resources in a given AWS Region each month. To learn more about eligibility requirements and getting started, see the Amazon WorkSpaces Applications documentation and FAQs.

The next generation of Amazon OpenSearch Serverless is now generally available

Today, AWS announced the general availability of the next generation of Amazon OpenSearch Serverless, a fully managed search and vector engine designed for customers building agents. The next generation of OpenSearch Serverless auto scales 20x faster than its predecessor and provisions resources in seconds to meet the demands of even the most unpredictable agentic workflows. With scale-to-zero and pay-per-usage pricing, customers can now save up to 60% compared to the cost of provisioning Opensearch clusters for peak loads.\n The next generation of OpenSearch Serverless introduces complete decoupling of compute and storage through a new shared storage layer. This means customers can scale compute up and down independently, reducing costs during low-traffic periods while maintaining instant readiness for traffic spikes. To simplify network connectivity, OpenSearch Serverless now offers two resource-based endpoints - a collection level endpoint and a regional endpoint which makes multi-VPC and on-premise connectivity straightforward using standard VPC APIs. The next generation of OpenSearch Serverless also launches with native integrations with AI development platforms including Vercel and Kiro, enabling developers to provision search infrastructure directly from their development environment using natural language commands. OpenSearch Serverless is now also part of OpenSearch Agent Skills that allows you to bring OpenSearch capabilities to your agents when using popular coding platfroms like Claude Code, Cursor and Codex. At GA, search and vector are the two available collection types. The next generation of OpenSearch Serverless is available today in all commercial AWS regions where Amazon OpenSearch Serverless is currently available. For pricing details about the next generation of OpenSearch Serverless, visit the pricing page. To learn more about the next generation of Amazon OpenSearch Serverless, see the marketing page, technical documentation and AWS News Blog. You can get started by visiting the technical launch blog that details all the new features launching in the next generation of Amazon OpenSearch Serverless.

AWS IoT Core now supports direct messaging for point-to-point communication

AWS IoT Core now supports the ability to send point-to-point messages to any connected device, providing better visibility into message delivery and lower messaging cost. AWS IoT Core is a fully managed service that securely connects IoT devices to the AWS cloud, and enables bi-directional messaging between IoT devices and cloud services.\n Previously, sending messages to a single IoT device required publishing to a topic subscribed by the device, with no built-in way to confirm delivery from the receiving device. With the SendDirectMessage API, you can send a message directly to any device connected to AWS IoT Core, and opt-in to receive delivery acknowledgement from the device. AWS IoT Core also uses the delivery acknowledgement to provide detailed API response codes and emit Amazon CloudWatch Logs, giving you visibility into message delivery status and failure reasons. Direct messaging is available in all AWS Regions where AWS IoT Core is available, including Amazon China and AWS GovCloud (US). To get started, see the direct messaging developer guide. For pricing details, visit the AWS IoT Core pricing page.

AWS Partner Central now supports deal sizing using total contract value (TCV)

Today, AWS announces an enhancement to the opportunity deal sizing capability in AWS Partner Central, by allowing Partners to estimate deals using total contract value (TCV). Partners can now submit the TCV from the deal with the customer, and deal sizing capability instantly converts the TCV to a forecasted monthly recurring revenue (MRR), eliminating manual MRR estimation so partners submit opportunities faster and with more accurate forecasts.\n When creating or updating opportunities, partners choose an MRR estimation method — Forecast MRR from TCV, Forecast MRR, AWS Pricing Calculator, or Manual entry. With Forecast MRR from TCV, partners enter the total contract value in USD or EUR and the contract duration in months, then review the forecasted MRR before submitting. The forecasted MRR improves pipeline accuracy, so partner sales teams accelerate deal velocity. Deal sizing using TCV is available in AWS Partner Central worldwide. The feature is accessible through both AWS Partner Central and the AWS Partner Central API for Selling, which is available in the US East (N. Virginia) Region. To get started, log in to AWS Partner Central in the console to create or update opportunities. To learn more about deal sizing, visit the Partner Central Sales Guide. For API integration with your CRM system, see the AWS Partner Central API Documentation.

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