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12/18/2025, 12:00:00 AM ~ 12/19/2025, 12:00:00 AM (UTC) Recent Announcements Amazon EC2 now supports Availability Zone ID across its APIs Amazon EC2 now supports Availability Zone ID (AZ ID) parameter, enabling you to create and manage resources such as instances, volumes, and subnets using consistent zone identifiers. AZ IDs are consistent and static identifiers that represent the same physical location across all AWS accounts, helping you optimize resource placement.\n Prior to this launch, you had to use an AZ name while creating a resource, but these names could map to different physical locations....

11/21/2025, 12:00:00 AM ~ 11/24/2025, 12:00:00 AM (UTC) Recent Announcements Amazon EMR Serverless now supports Apache Spark 4.0.1 (preview) Amazon EMR Serverless now supports Apache Spark 4.0.1 (preview). With Spark 4.0.1, you can build and maintain data pipelines more easily with ANSI SQL and VARIANT data types, strengthen compliance and governance frameworks with Apache Iceberg v3 table format, and deploy new real-time applications faster with enhanced streaming capabilities. This enables your teams to reduce technical debt and iterate more quickly, while ensuring data accuracy and consistency....

10/29/2025, 12:00:00 AM ~ 10/30/2025, 12:00:00 AM (UTC) Recent Announcements TwelveLabs’ Marengo Embed 3.0 for advanced video understanding now in Amazon Bedrock TwelveLabs’ Marengo Embed 3.0 is now available on Amazon Bedrock, bringing advanced video-native multimodal embedding capabilities to developers and organizations working with video content. Marengo embedding models unify videos, images, audio, and text into a single representation space, enabling you to build sophisticated video search and content analysis applications for any-to-any search, recommendation systems, and other multimodal tasks with industry-leading performance....

6/30/2025, 12:00:00 AM ~ 7/1/2025, 12:00:00 AM (UTC) Recent Announcements Citations API and PDF support for Claude models now in Amazon Bedrock Amazon Bedrock introduces Citations API and PDF support for Anthropic’s Claude Models that empower developers to build more trustworthy AI applications and expand document processing capabilities. The Citations API allows Claude to ground its answers in source documents, providing detailed references to the exact sentences and passages used to generate responses....

6/12/2025, 12:00:00 AM ~ 6/13/2025, 12:00:00 AM (UTC) Recent Announcements Announcing price reductions for Amazon SageMaker AI GPU-accelerated instances Following the announcement of the price reduction for Amazon EC2 NVIDIA GPU-accelerated instances, we are announcing up to 45% price reduction for Amazon SageMaker AI instances to enable more cost-efficient generative AI model development.\n The price reduction for SageMaker AI instances includes P4 (P4d and P4de) and P5 (P5, P5e and P5en) instance types....