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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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Starting today, Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MariaDB now supports MariaDB minor versions 10.6.28, 10.11.19, 11.4.13, 11.8.9, and 12.3.3, the latest minors released by community MariaDB. In addition to operational improvements, these minor versions introduce support for post-quantum TLS (PQ-TLS) key exchange, providing you with post-quantum cryptography options for encrypting your data in-transit. We recommend upgrading to the newer minor versions to accept fixes for Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs) in prior versions of MariaDB and to benefit from bug fixes, performance improvements, and new functionality add…
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Amazon EMR now gives you more time, at no additional cost, to migrate off older releases before they reach end of support. If you are actively migrating, your workloads on eligible releases keep receiving support while you move to a current release, with no opt-in and at no charge. To give you more time to plan and migrate, Amazon EMR provides critical security fixes for releases 5.36 and 6.6 through 6.15 on a best-effort basis through June 30, 2027, and extended Standard Support for 7.0 through 7.10 releases through August 31, 2027. To receive an extension, contact AWS Support with your migration plan and any help you need with the upgrade.…
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Version 1.0 of the Nx Plugin for AWS, an open source toolkit for scaffolding full-stack applications on AWS, is now available. AI assistants can stand up an application on AWS in minutes, but rarely get security, observability, and type-safety right in one pass. The plugin extends Nx, an open source, language-agnostic build system for monorepos, with generators that each build one part of an application on request, alongside the infrastructure to run it. Generators cover AI agents and Model Context Protocol servers on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, plus APIs, websites, and databases, built on proven open source frameworks in TypeScript and Python…
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Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for SQL Server now supports the latest Cumulative Updates (CU) and General Distribution Release (GDR) updates for Microsoft SQL Server. This release includes support for Microsoft SQL Server 2016 SP3+GDR KB5102340 (RDS version 13.00.6500.1.v1), SQL Server 2017 CU31+GDR KB5102337 (RDS version 14.00.3540.1.v1), SQL Server 2019 CU32+GDR KB5102335 (RDS version 15.09.4480.2.v1), SQL Server 2022 CU26 KB5093420 (RDS version 16.00.4265.3.v1) and SQL Server 2025 CU7 KB5096981 (RDS version 17.00.4065.4.v1). The GDR updates address vulnerabilities described in CVE-2026-47295, CVE-2026-47296, CVE-2026-5411…
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Starting today, Amazon Aurora MySQL-Compatible Edition 8.4 will support MySQL 8.4.8. In addition to several security enhancements and bug fixes, Aurora MySQL 8.4.8 includes several improvements, such as support for post-quantum TLS (PQ-TLS) key exchange, transaction timeout, multi-source replication, and delayed replication. PQ-TLS provides you with post-quantum cryptography options for encrypting your data in-transit. Transaction timeout helps prevent performance issues caused by long-running transactions blocking innoDB purge. Multi-source replication allows consolidation of data from multiple sources into a single replica to enable critic…
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Today, AWS announces the public preview of Amazon Linux 2027 (AL2027), the next version of the Amazon Linux operating system, purpose-built for cloud-native workloads on AWS with performance, scale, and security in mind. Built on AL2023's baseline, AL2027 is designed for customers running web applications, databases, containerized microservices, AI/ML workloads, and large-scale infrastructure who need a secure, stable, and AWS-native operating system. AL2027 runs on kernel 7.1+, enables SELinux in enforcing mode as default, accelerates cryptographic performance with AWS-LC, and keeps builders current with the latest toolchains and language r…
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Amazon S3 now supports AWS PrivateLink for endpoints that have been validated under the Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 140-3 program. Customers with security and compliance requirements can use FIPS-validated cryptographic modules when connecting to S3 while keeping their traffic within their Virtual Private Cloud (VPC). To get started, create a new or edit an existing interface VPC endpoint for S3 and configure it to use the FIPS S3 endpoint. AWS PrivateLink support for FIPS S3 endpoints is now available in the AWS US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (N. California), US West (Oregon), Canada (Central), Canada West…
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Claude Fable 5.1 is generally available on AWS and brings Anthropic's most capable frontier model to all customers. Fable 5.1 delivers frontier intelligence for ambitious tasks across coding, scientific research, and enterprise workflows. A clear improvement over Claude Fable 5, Fable 5.1 is a step up in intelligence on the hardest reasoning tasks, providing better judgement on ambiguous work and fewer confident wrong answers. Claude Mythos 5.1, the same underlying model as Claude Fable 5.1 with its full cyber and bio capabilities retained for cybersecurity and biology research, is available with limited access. Claude Fable 5.1 is built for…
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Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Custom for SQL Server now supports the latest Cumulative Updates (CU) and General Distribution Release (GDR) updates for Microsoft SQL Server. This release includes support for SQL Server 2019 CU32+GDR KB5102335 (RDS version 15.00.4480.2.v1) and SQL Server 2022 CU25 + GDR KB5101347 (RDS version 16.00.4262.2.v1). The GDR updates address vulnerabilities described in CVE-2026-47295, CVE-2026-47296, CVE-2026-54118, CVE-2026-55002. For additional information on the improvements and fixes included in these updates, see Microsoft documentation for KB5101347, KB5102335. You can upgrade your Amazon RDS …
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Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) now supports in-place major version upgrades (MVU) directly from engine versions 3.6 and 4.0 to version 8.0. This upgrade capability removes the need for intermediate version upgrades and allows you to upgrade your version 3.6 or 4.0 clusters while preserving existing data, configurations, and cluster settings. Upgrading to version 8.0 provides access to the latest security patches, performance improvements, and new developer capabilities. Major version upgrades from DocumentDB 3.6 and 4.0 to 8.0 are available in all AWS regions where these versions are currently supported. To learn more about u…
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Amazon Redshift now supports AWS IAM Identity Center authentication for provisioned clusters and serverless workgroups configured with enhanced VPC routing (EVR). You can access Amazon Redshift with single sign-on with your corporate credentials, and the traffic traverses Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) and stays on the AWS network. This is valuable for customers with data residency, regulatory, or network-isolation requirements that mandate no public internet egress for analytics. With Redshift EVR, all traffic between your Redshift warehouse and other AWS services goes through your VPC, where you can govern it with security group…