2026-10-26

10/26/2026, 12:00:00 AM ~ 10/27/2026, 12:00:00 AM (UTC) Recent Announcements OpenAI GPT-6.1 Terra is now generally available on Amazon Bedrock Today, AWS announces the general availability of OpenAI GPT-6.1 Terra on Amazon Bedrock. GPT-6.1 Terra expands the GPT-6 family with a balance of capability, speed, and cost efficiency for everyday workloads. \n As the newest model in the Terra line, GPT-6.1 Terra combines detailed visual reasoning, accurate computer use, and improved factuality and natural writing over GPT-5....

October 26, 2026

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

2026-10-19

10/19/2026, 12:00:00 AM ~ 10/20/2026, 12:00:00 AM (UTC) Recent Announcements Amazon Connect Customer Global Resiliency now provides business users visibility into resiliency readiness across linked Regions Amazon Connect Customer Global Resiliency now provides a Global Resiliency page in the admin website, giving administrators a single place to review their Region switch readiness. The page shows an overall readiness status and lists the resources that Global Resiliency natively replicates, including which resource types are in sync, which are still pending synchronization, and which need action....

October 19, 2026

2026-10-05

10/5/2026, 12:00:00 AM ~ 10/6/2026, 12:00:00 AM (UTC) Recent Announcements Amazon Redshift adds support for creating and refreshing Apache Iceberg materialized views Amazon Redshift now supports the creation and refresh of Apache Iceberg materialized views. Materialized views pre-compute expensive joins and aggregations once and store the results in an Apache Iceberg table in Amazon S3 or Amazon S3 table buckets, registered in the AWS Glue Data Catalog. Materialized views are created using familiar SQL — CREATE MATERIALIZED VIEW … USING ICEBERG and the results are instantly queryable by any Iceberg-compatible engine, including Amazon Athena, Apache Spark on Amazon EMR and AWS Glue, and third-party engines such as Trino, or Snowflake....

October 5, 2026

2026-10-01

10/1/2026, 12:00:00 AM ~ 10/2/2026, 12:00:00 AM (UTC) Recent Announcements AWS Well-Architected Agent is now available in preview AWS announces the preview of AWS Well-Architected Agent, a AI-powered service that is the next-gen evolution of AWS Trusted Advisor and the AWS Well-Architected Tool. The agent analyzes and optimizes AWS infrastructure across cost, security, performance, and reliability, delivering contextualized recommendations prioritized by business goals. It automatically correlates key metrics and application topology against Well-Architected best practices and analyzes Terraform, CDK templates and CloudFormation templates to deliver automation-ready fixes where applicable....

October 1, 2026