9/28/2026, 12:00:00 AM ~ 9/29/2026, 12:00:00 AM (UTC)

Recent Announcements

Amazon EC2 Future-dated Capacity Reservations Now Supports Postponing Start Dates

Amazon EC2 Future-dated Capacity Reservations let you secure capacity up to 120 days in advance by specifying the capacity you need, the start date, and a commitment duration. If your plans change before delivery, you can now postpone your start date to match your new timeline.\nWhen you postpone your start date, EC2 presents a quote that shows the new start date and the required commitment duration. The commitment duration can increase, depending on when you postpone the start date. After you review and accept the quote, EC2 updates your reservation with the new start date. This feature is available to all Future-dated Capacity Reservation customers. Refer to the AWS Capabilities by Region website for the feature’s regional availability. For more details, refer to the Capacity Reservation user guide.

Amazon Rekognition Face Liveness now returns Feedback Codes

Amazon Rekognition Face Liveness now returns Feedback Codes that help customers understand why a liveness check received a low score and how users could retry successfully. The codes are returned in the GetFaceLivenessSessionResults API response, and they identify the specific conditions that contributed to the low score, such as poor lighting, face obstruction, closed eyes, or low video quality. Customers can surface these codes to their end users who can then make targeted corrections and retry with confidence. A single session can return multiple Feedback Codes at once, allowing users to resolve all contributing issues in one retry. This feature is especially useful in identity verification onboarding, re-authentication flows, and accessibility scenarios.\nAmazon Rekognition Face Liveness verifies that the person in front of the camera is a real, live human (instead of a photo, video replay, mask, or deepfake) through a short, guided selfie-video check. It returns a confidence score, a reference image for face matching, and session audit images. 

Amazon Rekognition Face Liveness API documentation and Face Liveness FAQ.

Grok 4.7 is now available on Amazon Bedrock

Amazon Bedrock now supports SpaceXAI Grok 4.7, a frontier model built for coding, agentic tasks, and knowledge work, with US Geo and Global cross-Region inference.  \nGrok 4.7 builds on Grok 4.6 with better mixed-document handling, more dependable repo-scale coding with planning and error recovery, and enhanced browser-use agents for form fills and portal navigation.   Get started with Grok 4.7 in the Amazon Bedrock console or programmatically through supported Amazon Bedrock APIs. For information about supported AWS Regions, endpoints, APIs, features, inference profiles and pricing, see the Amazon Bedrock documentation. To learn more, read the launch blog post.

Claude Sonnet 5.5 now available on AWS

AWS now offers Claude Sonnet 5.5, a smarter and more efficient Sonnet that delivers a clear leap forward on coding and knowledge work with at a lower cost per task for most work at faster speed.\nClaude Sonnet 5.5 is a smarter, more efficient Sonnet and a step up from Sonnet 5, making it a natural upgrade for teams already building on Sonnet. It’s stronger for coding, completing well-scoped tasks as part of a larger coding strategy such as building and fixing features with Claude in the same session or verifying output against requirements. And it produces ready-to-share knowledge work, from 1-pagers, diagrams, and summary slides to document edits and spreadsheet cleanup. Customers have two ways to access Claude Sonnet 5.5: Amazon Bedrock and Claude Platform on AWS. Amazon Bedrock gives you Sonnet’s capabilities while keeping your data within AWS infrastructure with regional data residency and provides access through a unified service with AWS-managed features like Guardrails and Knowledge Bases. To learn more, see the 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.

Claude Sonnet 5.5 now available on AWS GovCloud (US)

AWS GovCloud (US) now offers Claude Sonnet 5.5, a smarter and more efficient Sonnet that delivers a clear leap forward on coding and knowledge work with at a lower cost per task for most work ag faster speed.\nClaude Sonnet 5.5 is a smarter, more efficient Sonnet and a step up from Sonnet 5, making it a natural upgrade for teams already building on Sonnet. It’s stronger for coding, completing well-scoped tasks as part of a larger coding strategy such as building and fixing features with Claude in the same session or verifying output against requirements. And it produces ready-to-share knowledge work, from 1-pagers, diagrams, and summary slides to document edits and spreadsheet cleanup. Amazon Bedrock gives you Sonnet’s capabilities while keeping your data within AWS infrastructure with regional data residency and provides access through a unified service with AWS-managed features like Guardrails and Knowledge Bases. To learn more, see the Amazon Bedrock documentation and regional availability.

Amazon Corretto September 2026 Patch Updates

On September 25, 2026, Amazon announced a patch update for the following Amazon Corretto Long-Term Support (LTS) and Feature Release (FR) versions of OpenJDK: Corretto 25.0.4.10.1, 21.0.12.11.1, 17.0.20.12.1, and 11.0.32.12.1 are now available for download. Amazon Corretto is a no-cost, multi-platform, production-ready distribution of OpenJDK. This patch includes the latest tzdata 2026d updates.\nVisit Corretto home page to download Corretto 27, Corretto 25, Corretto 21, Corretto 17, Corretto 11, or Corretto 8. You can also get the updates on your Linux system by configuring a Corretto Apt, Yum, or Apk repo. Feedback is welcomed!

AWS Backup adds logically air-gapped vault support for Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP

AWS Backup logically air-gapped vault now supports Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP. Logically air-gapped vaults are a type of AWS Backup vault that allows secure sharing of backups across accounts and AWS Organizations, supporting direct restore to reduce recovery time from a data loss event.\nYou can now protect your Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP volumes in logically air-gapped vaults. A logically air-gapped vault stores immutable backups that are locked by default, and isolated with encryption using AWS owned keys or customer-managed keys. You can store your FSx for NetApp ONTAP backups in a logically air-gapped vault in the same account or across other accounts and Regions. This helps reduce the risk of downtime, ensure business continuity, and meet compliance and disaster recovery requirements. You can get started using the AWS Backup console, AWS Command Line Interface (CLI), or AWS SDKs. Target FSx for NetApp ONTAP backups to a logically air-gapped vault by specifying it as the primary target or copy destination in your backup plan. Share the vault for recovery or restore testing with other accounts using AWS Resource Access Manager (RAM), or safeguard vault access during account compromise using Multi-party approval. Once available, you can initiate direct restore jobs from that account, eliminating the overhead of copying backups first. This support is available in all AWS Regions where both logically air-gapped vault and Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP are available. For more information and detailed regional availability, visit the AWS Backup documentation. To learn more about logically air-gapped vaults, visit the feature documentation and pricing page.

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