2026-04-20

4/20/2026, 12:00:00 AM ~ 4/21/2026, 12:00:00 AM (UTC) Recent Announcements Amazon EBS expands volume modification enhancement to AWS European Sovereign Cloud Region Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) now supports up to four Elastic Volumes modifications per volume within a rolling 24-hour window in AWS European Sovereign Cloud (Germany) Region. Elastic Volumes modifications allow you to increase the size, change the type, and adjust the performance of your EBS volumes. With this update, you can start a new modification immediately after the previous one completes, as long as you have initiated fewer than four modifications in the past 24 hours....

April 20, 2026

2026-04-03

4/3/2026, 12:00:00 AM ~ 4/6/2026, 12:00:00 AM (UTC) Recent Announcements Apache Spark troubleshooting and upgrade agents now available as Kiro powers The Apache Spark troubleshooting agent and upgrade agent for Amazon EMR are now available as Kiro powers, bringing one-click access to AI-assisted Spark operations directly in Kiro. With these powers, data engineers can reduce troubleshooting time from hours to minutes and compress Spark version upgrades from months to weeks.\n When a Spark job fails, the troubleshooting power identifies the root cause by analyzing logs, metrics, and configurations across EMR on EC2 and EMR Serverless, and provides specific code recommendations for PySpark applications....

April 3, 2026

2026-03-17

3/17/2026, 12:00:00 AM ~ 3/18/2026, 12:00:00 AM (UTC) Recent Announcements [Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio supports aggregated view of data lineage ](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/03/amazon-sageMaker-unified-studio-aggregated-view -data-lineage/) Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio now provides an aggregated view of data lineage, displaying all jobs contributing to your dataset. The aggregated view gives you a complete picture of data transformations and dependencies across your entire lineage graph, helping you quickly identify all upstream sources and downstream consumers of your datasets....

March 17, 2026

2026-03-13

3/13/2026, 12:00:00 AM ~ 3/16/2026, 12:00:00 AM (UTC) Recent Announcements Amazon CloudWatch Application Signals adds new SLO capabilities Amazon CloudWatch Application Signals now offers three new console based capabilities for Service Level Objectives (SLOs): SLO Recommendations, Service-Level SLOs, and SLO Performance Report. CloudWatch Application Signals helps customers monitor and improve application performance on AWS. It automatically collects data from applications running on services like Amazon EC2, Amazon ECS, and Lambda. Previously, customers had to manually set SLO thresholds without data-driven guidance, often leading to misconfigured targets and alert fatigue....

March 13, 2026

2026-02-17

2/17/2026, 12:00:00 AM ~ 2/18/2026, 12:00:00 AM (UTC) Recent Announcements Amazon Bedrock reinforcement fine-tuning adds support for open-weight models with OpenAI-compatible APIs Amazon Bedrock now extends reinforcement fine-tuning (RFT) support to popular open-weight models, including OpenAI GPT-OSS and Qwen models, and introduces OpenAI-compatible fine-tuning APIs. These capabilities make it easier for developers to improve open-weight model accuracy without requiring deep machine learning expertise or large volumes of labeled data. Reinforcement fine-tuning in Amazon Bedrock automates the end-to-end customization workflow, allowing models to learn from feedback on multiple possible responses using a small set of prompts, rather than traditional large training datasets....

February 17, 2026