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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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AWS Weekly Roundup: EC2 application status checks, IAM role manager, OpenAI Daybreak on Bedrock, and more (August 17, 2026)

Last week, AWS contributors joined the OpenSearch and Valkey communities at Open Source Summit Korea 2026 and MCP DevSummit Seoul 2026 to meet open source developers and contributors. At the four-day event, community leaders and users of these Linux Foundation open source projects gathered to share knowledge, collaborate on solutions, and push the projects forward. […]

AWS News Blog · 17 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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Gateway API v1.6: TCPRoute and UDPRoute Graduate to Standard

The Kubernetes SIG Network community is thrilled to share the release of Gateway API v1.6.0, which was released on June 30th of this year! Gateway API has become the standard for modern, role-oriented, and expressive service networking in Kubernetes. In previous releases, Gateway API established a production-grade foundation for HTTP and TLS layer 7 traffic. With version 1.6.0, Gateway API takes a major step forward by expanding standard layer 4 protocol routing and introducing cleaner API boundaries for experimental innovation. Here is a quick summary of what's new in Gateway API v1.6.0: TCPRoute and UDPRoute Graduate to Standard: Raw L4 TC…

Kubernetes Blog · 03 Aug 2026Read →
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Kubernetes v1.37 Sneak Peek

As we get closer to the release date for Kubernetes v1.37, the project develops and matures, features may be deprecated, removed, or replaced with better ones for the project's overall health. This blog outlines some of the planned changes for the Kubernetes v1.37 release that the release team feels you should be aware of for the continued maintenance of your Kubernetes environment and keeping up to date with the latest changes. The information below reflects the current status of the v1.37 release and may change before the actual release date. Deprecations and removals for Kubernetes v1.37Kubectl: kubectl run --filename/-f to be deprecatedT…

Kubernetes Blog · 31 Jul 2026Read →
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Building a Custom Metrics Exporter for Kubernetes

Kubernetes ships with built-in awareness of CPU and memory, but most real-world scaling decisions depend on signals that live entirely outside that narrow window: how many messages are waiting in a queue, how long the last batch job took, how many active WebSocket connections a pod is holding. When the built-in metrics are not enough, a metrics exporter bridges that gap. This post walks through writing one from scratch, packaging it as a container, and wiring it into a cluster so that Prometheus — and ultimately the HorizontalPodAutoscaler — can consume it. What a metrics exporter actually doesAn exporter is a small HTTP server with a single…

Kubernetes Blog · 14 Jul 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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Announcing etcd v3.7.0

This article is a mirror of the original announcement Today, SIG etcd is releasing etcd v3.7.0, the latest minor release of the popular distributed key-value store and core Kubernetes component. v3.7 ships the long-requested RangeStream feature, delivers several other performance improvements, removes the last remnants of the legacy v2store, and completes a major protobuf overhaul. You can download etcd v3.7.0 here: Source code Binaries Official container images This release also includes new versions of the two core etcd dependencies, bbolt v1.5.0 and raft v3.7.0. For instructions on installing etcd, see the install documentation. For the f…

Kubernetes Blog · 08 Jul 2026Read →
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Spotlight on SIG Storage

In our ongoing SIG Spotlight series, we shine a light on the groups that keep the Kubernetes project moving forward. This time, we catch up with SIG Storage, the group responsible for persistent data, volume management, and the interfaces that connect Kubernetes workloads to the storage systems beneath them. We spoke with Xing Yang, Co-Chair of SIG Storage and Software Engineer at VMware by Broadcom, about the SIG's history, the features shipping in recent Kubernetes releases, and where storage in Kubernetes is headed as AI workloads become the norm. IntroductionsCould you introduce yourself and share your role(s) within SIG Storage? My name…

Kubernetes Blog · 15 Jun 2026Read →
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Kubernetes v1.36: New Metric for Route Sync in the Cloud Controller Manager

This article was originally published with the wrong date. It was later republished, dated the 15th of May 2026. Kubernetes v1.36 introduces a new alpha counter metric route_controller_route_sync_total to the Cloud Controller Manager (CCM) route controller implementation at k8s.io/cloud-provider. This metric increments each time routes are synced with the cloud provider. A/B testing watch-based route reconciliationThis metric was added to help operators validate the CloudControllerManagerWatchBasedRoutesReconciliation feature gate introduced in Kubernetes v1.35. That feature gate switches the route controller from a fixed-interval loop to a …

Kubernetes Blog · 15 May 2026Read →