2026-08-19

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....

August 19, 2026

2026-08-17

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....

August 17, 2026

2026-08-10

8/10/2026, 12:00:00 AM ~ 8/11/2026, 12:00:00 AM (UTC) Recent Announcements Amazon GameLift Streams Now Offers Service-managed Shader Caching Amazon GameLift Streams now manages shader cache capture and distribution for your applications. You capture a shader cache from a stream session, and the service automatically makes it available for future sessions across your streaming locations. No application changes are required.\n Capturing shader caches can help reduce loading times and visual stuttering, during the session....

August 10, 2026

2026-08-07

8/7/2026, 12:00:00 AM ~ 8/10/2026, 12:00:00 AM (UTC) Recent Announcements Amazon EC2 R8i and R8i-Flex instances are now available in Europe (Milan) region Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) R8i and R8i-flex instances are available in the Europe (Milan) region. These instances are powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors, available only on AWS, delivering the highest performance and fastest memory bandwidth among comparable Intel processors in the cloud....

August 7, 2026

2026-07-30

7/30/2026, 12:00:00 AM ~ 7/31/2026, 12:00:00 AM (UTC) Recent Announcements AWS Direct Connect now supports BGP route visibility on Virtual Interfaces AWS Direct Connect now provides Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) route visibility, allowing you to view the routes exchanged between AWS and your on-premises routers across your private, transit, and public virtual interfaces (VIFs). You can now see which routes AWS accepted from your router and which routes AWS is advertising to your router, along with their AS path and BGP community values....

July 30, 2026