2026-10-20

10/20/2026, 12:00:00 AM ~ 10/21/2026, 12:00:00 AM (UTC) Recent Announcements Polly Generative engine upgraded with more natural speech, 14 new voices, and 2 new languages Today, we are introducing a new model behind the Amazon Polly Generative engine that delivers more natural-sounding, accurate speech output with low latency. With this upgrade, you get access to an enhanced voice portfolio with higher overall quality, 14 new voices across nine locales, and two new languages—Hindi and Finnish—now generally available on the Generative engine for the first time....

October 20, 2026

2026-08-11

8/11/2026, 12:00:00 AM ~ 8/12/2026, 12:00:00 AM (UTC) Recent Announcements Amazon EC2 R8a instances are now available in Canada (Central) region Starting today, Amazon EC2 R8a instances are now available in Canada (Central) Region. These instances, feature 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors (formerly code named Turin) with a maximum frequency of 4.5 GHz, deliver up to 30% higher performance, and up to 19% better price-performance compared to R7a instances.\n R8a instances deliver 45% more memory bandwidth compared to R7a instances, making these instances ideal for latency sensitive workloads....

August 11, 2026

2026-06-30

6/30/2026, 12:00:00 AM ~ 7/1/2026, 12:00:00 AM (UTC) Recent Announcements Amazon CloudWatch Logs enriches log events with AWS resource tags Amazon CloudWatch Logs now enriches log events with resource tags, making it easier to filter, search, and analyze logs by the metadata that matters most to your organization, such as team ownership, environment, cost center, or application name, without requiring changes to your logging instrumentation.\n With tag enrichment, Amazon CloudWatch Logs adds resource tags directly to your log events at ingestion time....

June 30, 2026

2026-05-22

5/22/2026, 12:00:00 AM ~ 5/25/2026, 12:00:00 AM (UTC) Recent Announcements Amazon SageMaker expands domain management across domain types Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio now provides domain management experience for Identity Center and IAM-based domains outside of AWS console, allows administrators and data management teams to create and manage projects, configure workforce identity, manage users and permissions, and set networking properties for projects. Previously, this was only available for IAM based domains.\n With this launch, administrators of Identity Center-based domains can access domain management capabilities in SageMaker Unified Studio portal to create projects with configurable execution roles that define which AWS analytics, AI, and ML services the project can access....

May 22, 2026

2026-02-18

2/18/2026, 12:00:00 AM ~ 2/19/2026, 12:00:00 AM (UTC) Recent Announcements Amazon Aurora DSQL now integrates with Kiro powers and AI agent skills Today, AWS announces Amazon Aurora DSQL integration with Kiro powers and AI agent skills, enabling developers to build Aurora DSQL-backed applications faster with AI agent-assisted development. These integrations bundle the Aurora DSQL Model Context Protocol (MCP) server with development best practices, so AI agents can help you with Aurora DSQL schema design, performance optimization, and database operations out of the box....

February 18, 2026