8/21/2026, 12:00:00 AM ~ 8/24/2026, 12:00:00 AM (UTC) Recent Announcements Amazon Bedrock announces reduced pricing for OpenAI GPT-5.6 Sol Today, OpenAI announced that they are lowering API prices for GPT-5.6 Sol. Following the recent Terra and Luna price reductions, Sol now costs $4 per million input tokens and $20 per million output tokens—20% lower input pricing and 33.3% lower output pricing. This promotional pricing is available at least through November 21, 2026....
8/20/2026, 12:00:00 AM ~ 8/21/2026, 12:00:00 AM (UTC) Recent Announcements AWS announces the general availability of a new AWS Local Zone in Las Vegas, Nevada AWS Local Zone in Las Vegas, Nevada is now generally available. The new AWS Local Zone supports Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C7i, M7i, R7i, and C8gn instances, Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volume types gp3, gp2, io1, sc1, and st1, Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS), Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS), Application Load Balancer, and AWS Direct Connect....
8/19/2026, 12:00:00 AM ~ 8/20/2026, 12:00:00 AM (UTC) Recent Announcements Launching External Web Access for Web Search on Amazon Bedrock Earlier this month, we announced Web Search on Amazon Bedrock, a built-in server-side tool that allows you to ground model responses with current web knowledge, while maintaining data within your secured AWS environment with zero data egress. Today, we are expanding Web Search to enable the external_web_access parameter allowing Web Search to retrieve content directly from the public web so models can ground responses in the latest information....
8/18/2026, 12:00:00 AM ~ 8/19/2026, 12:00:00 AM (UTC) Recent Announcements Amazon Corretto August 2026 Critical Security Patch Updates On Aug 18, 2026, Amazon announced critical security patch update (CSPU) for Amazon Corretto Long-Term Support (LTS) and Feature Release (FR) versions of OpenJDK. Corretto 26.0.2.11.1, 25.0.4.8.1, 21.0.12.9.1, 17.0.20.10.1, 11.0.32.10.1, and 8u504 are now available for download. Amazon Corretto is a no-cost, multi-platform, production-ready distribution of OpenJDK.\n Visit Corretto home page to download Corretto 26, Corretto 25, Corretto 21, Corretto 17, Corretto 11, or Corretto 8....
8/17/2026, 12:00:00 AM ~ 8/18/2026, 12:00:00 AM (UTC) Recent Announcements Amazon Bedrock expands API support and introduces Cross Region Inferencing for OpenAI models Amazon Bedrock now supports the OpenAI GPT-5.6 models (Sol, Terra, and Luna) on the bedrock-runtime endpoint, with support for the Responses, Converse, and Chat Completions APIs. It also adds support for cross-Region inference, allowing customers to use Global and Geo cross-Region inference to access higher throughput and lower inference costs....