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

2026-08-14

8/14/2026, 12:00:00 AM ~ 8/17/2026, 12:00:00 AM (UTC) Recent Announcements Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports Oracle Application Express (APEX) version 26.1 Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Oracle now supports Oracle Application Express (APEX) version 26.1. Amazon RDS for Oracle is a managed database service that makes it simple to set up, operate, and scale Oracle Database deployments in the cloud. Oracle APEX is a low-code development platform that enables developers to build scalable, secure enterprise applications with modern user interfaces....

August 14, 2026

2026-07-16

7/16/2026, 12:00:00 AM ~ 7/17/2026, 12:00:00 AM (UTC) Recent Announcements Amazon Managed Grafana achieves FedRAMP High authorization in AWS GovCloud (US) Amazon Managed Grafana is now a FedRAMP High authorized service in the AWS GovCloud (US-East) and AWS GovCloud (US-West) regions. Federal agencies, public sector organizations, and other enterprises with FedRAMP High compliance requirements can now use Amazon Managed Grafana to visualize, query, and alert on operational metrics across their AWS and hybrid environments while meeting their strict security and compliance requirements....

July 16, 2026

2026-06-09

6/9/2026, 12:00:00 AM ~ 6/10/2026, 12:00:00 AM (UTC) Recent Announcements Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio Notebooks now support EMR Serverless Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio Notebooks now support Amazon EMR Serverless with Apache Spark Connect, giving data engineers and analysts more flexibility in choosing their Spark runtime for interactive analytics and data engineering workloads. In addition to Amazon Athena Spark, users can now leverage Amazon EMR Serverless as their Spark runtime, selecting the optimal engine based on their requirements....

June 9, 2026

2026-06-08

6/8/2026, 12:00:00 AM ~ 6/9/2026, 12:00:00 AM (UTC) Recent Announcements AWS Compute Optimizer now supports idle recommendations for six additional resource types AWS Compute Optimizer now identifies idle resources for Amazon DynamoDB provisioned tables, Amazon ElastiCache (Redis and Valkey), Amazon MemoryDB, Amazon DocumentDB (provisioned and serverless), Amazon WorkSpaces, and Amazon SageMaker endpoints. This expansion enables you to detect unused resources across more of your AWS environment and identify potential cost savings....

June 8, 2026