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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....

6/18/2026, 12:00:00 AM ~ 6/19/2026, 12:00:00 AM (UTC) Recent Announcements Amazon ECS announces faster service auto scaling Amazon ECS service auto scaling now detects and responds to load changes faster with support for high resolution (20-second) metrics and metric publishing optimizations. In AWS benchmarking tests, time to trigger scale-out improved from 363 seconds to 86 seconds (76% faster, 4.2x), and total time to scale and provision new tasks improved from 386 seconds to 109 seconds (72% faster, 3....

6/16/2026, 12:00:00 AM ~ 6/17/2026, 12:00:00 AM (UTC) Recent Announcements AWS Transform now supports model-to-model migration assessment for generative AI workloads AWS Transform now offers a model-to-model migration custom transformation that assesses your generative AI workloads and produces a comprehensive migration plan for moving from third-party providers to Amazon Bedrock. The AI-powered agent scans your codebase, identifies every AI SDK and model in use, gathers your migration requirements through interactive questions, and maps models to Bedrock equivalents with transparent cost comparisons and production-ready code changes....

6/8/2026, 12:00:00 AM ~ 6/9/2026, 12:00:00 AM (UTC) Recent Announcements AWS Compute Optimizer now supports idle recommendations for six additional resource types AWS Compute Optimizer now identifies idle resources for Amazon DynamoDB provisioned tables, Amazon ElastiCache (Redis and Valkey), Amazon MemoryDB, Amazon DocumentDB (provisioned and serverless), Amazon WorkSpaces, and Amazon SageMaker endpoints. This expansion enables you to detect unused resources across more of your AWS environment and identify potential cost savings....

5/29/2026, 12:00:00 AM ~ 6/1/2026, 12:00:00 AM (UTC) Recent Announcements Amazon SES now offers inbox placement metrics and blocklist monitoring Today, Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) launched a new set of deliverability features that help customers get more information about their outbound sending deliverability performance and reputation. Customers can now see the percentage of messages that are placed in recipient spam folders based on samples of industry data, as well as see when their domains and IPs are listed on public email sender block lists....