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OpenAI GPT-6 Astra is now generally available on Amazon Bedrock

Today, AWS announces the general availability of GPT-6 Astra from OpenAI on Amazon Bedrock. The latest and most capable model from OpenAI to date, GPT-6 Astra brings deeper reasoning and judgment, professional-quality writing and design, and advanced computer and browser use to demanding business workflows. It supports a context window of up to 1 million input tokens and can produce output aligned with organizational voice, templates, and standards. The Amazon Bedrock inference engine delivers the performance, security, and scale required for production workloads. You can call GPT-6 Astra directly through supported Amazon Bedrock APIs or con…

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Amazon Aurora MySQL 3.13 (compatible with MySQL 8.0.45) is generally available

Starting today, Amazon Aurora MySQL-Compatible Edition 3 (compatible with MySQL 8.0) supports MySQL 8.0.45, which includes community MySQL fixes and Aurora-specific improvements. For detailed information on this release, refer to Aurora MySQL 3 and MySQL 8.0.45 release notes. You can upgrade your databases during scheduled maintenance windows using automatic minor version upgrades. To simplify operations at scale, enable automatic minor version upgrades and use the AWS Organizations Upgrade Rollout Policy to orchestrate upgrades across your clusters in phases. You can perform minor version upgrades in-place or via snapshot restore. This rele…

AWS What’s New · 28 Aug 2026Read →
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Cosmos3-Edge, Cosmos3-Nano, and Cosmos3-Super models now available on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart

NVIDIA's Cosmos3-Edge, Cosmos3-Nano, and Cosmos3-Super models are now available on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart, expanding the portfolio of foundation models available to AWS customers. These three models form the Cosmos 3 family of open, frontier omnimodal world models for physical AI, enabling customers to build robots, autonomous vehicles, and vision AI that perceive, reason, plan, and act in the physical world. These models address different physical AI challenges with specialized capabilities: Cosmos3-Edge is engineered for on-device robot control and real-time visual reasoning on edge hardware. This 4B-parameter omni-model (with a 2B Nem…

AWS What’s New · 27 Aug 2026Read →
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Happy 20th Birthday, Amazon EC2

On the 20th Anniversary, we recognize how AWS has continued to push the boundaries of what cloud computing can deliver, building custom silicon for general-purpose and AI workloads and expanding EC2 into new form factors and deployment models that our customers in 2006 could not have imagined.

AWS News Blog · 25 Aug 2026Read →
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AWS Weekly Roundup: AWS Heroes Summit, Web Search on Amazon Bedrock, Dogwood, Kiro Crew, and more (August 10, 2026)

Last week, we brought together AWS Heroes from around the world to connect, collaborate, and celebrate the builders who go above and beyond for the AWS community. The AWS Heroes Summit, an invite-only annual gathering, brings global experts specializing in fields like AI, serverless, and containers together for direct collaboration, technical deep-dives, and feedback sessions […]

AWS News Blog · 10 Aug 2026Read →
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Amazon SQS turns 20: Two decades of reliable messaging at scale

On July 13, 2006, we launched Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) as one of the first three services available to customers, alongside Amazon EC2 and Amazon S3. We had learned firsthand that distributed systems need a reliable way to pass messages between components without creating tight dependencies. If one service called another directly and […]

AWS News Blog · 13 Jul 2026Read →
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Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-NVFP4 and Wan2.1-T2V-1.3B-Diffusers models now available on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart

NVIDIA's Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-NVFP4 and Alibaba's Wan2.1-T2V-1.3B-Diffusers models are now available on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart, expanding the portfolio of foundation models available to AWS customers. These two models bring specialized capabilities spanning agentic coding with long-context reasoning and lightweight text-to-video generation, enabling customers to deploy high-performance, scalable AI solutions on AWS infrastructure. These models address different enterprise AI challenges with specialized capabilities: Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-NVFP4 is optimized for agentic coding, multimodal reasoning, and long-context understanding as the NVIDIA-quanti…

AWS What’s New · 19 hr agoRead →
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Ministral-3-3B-Instruct-2512 and Ministral-3-8B-Instruct-2512 models now available on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart

Mistral AI's Ministral-3-3B-Instruct-2512 and Ministral-3-8B-Instruct-2512 models are now available on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart, expanding the portfolio of foundation models available to AWS customers. These two models from the Ministral 3 family bring compact, vision-capable language models purpose-built for edge deployment and resource-constrained environments, enabling customers to deploy high-performance, scalable AI solutions on AWS infrastructure. These models address different enterprise AI challenges with specialized capabilities: Ministral-3-3B-Instruct-2512 is engineered for ultra-lightweight edge deployment with multimodal under…

AWS What’s New · 20 hr agoRead →
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Gemma-4-31B-it-assistant and Gemma-4-31B-IT-NVFP4 models now available on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart

Google DeepMind's Gemma-4-31B-it-assistant and NVIDIA's Gemma-4-31B-IT-NVFP4 models are now available on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart, expanding the portfolio of foundation models available to AWS customers. These two models bring the flagship Gemma 4 31B dense architecture to enterprise workloads in both full-precision and optimized quantized variants, enabling customers to deploy high-performance, scalable AI solutions on AWS infrastructure. These models address different enterprise AI challenges with specialized capabilities: Gemma-4-31B-it-assistant is built for multimodal reasoning, coding, and agentic workflows as the assistant-tuned var…

AWS What’s New · 20 hr agoRead →
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granite-speech-4.1-2b, kanana-2-30b-a3b-instruct, and OpenFold3 models now available on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart

BM's granite-speech-4.1-2b, Kakao's kanana-2-30b-a3b-instruct, and the OpenFold Consortium's OpenFold3 models are now available on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart, expanding the portfolio of foundation models available to AWS customers. These three models bring specialized capabilities spanning multilingual speech recognition, bilingual agentic AI, and biomolecular structure prediction, enabling customers to deploy high-performance, scalable AI solutions on AWS infrastructure. These models address different enterprise AI challenges with specialized capabilities: granite-speech-4.1-2b is purpose-built for multilingual automatic speech recognition …

AWS What’s New · 20 hr agoRead →
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AWS End User Messaging strengthens SMS deliverability with automatic failover

AWS End User Messaging is advancing its deliverability capabilities in phone pools. Now, customers sending through phone pools automatically benefit from automatic failover to the next best performing number in the pool when SMS delivery is impacted from downstream disruptions. SMS deliverability can be affected by drops or delays when trying to reach the end recipient while it's being routed from AWS to messaging providers and eventually mobile carriers. These disruptions can hit the most important parts of your messaging program, including delivery notifications, one-time passcodes, reminders, and other time-sensitive messages. AWS End Use…

AWS What’s New · 1 days agoRead →