π Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.5 and Sonnet 5.5 are on AWS GovCloud (US) in Kiro IDE/CLI. Opus cuts tool calls and tokens by 40% and 50%, while Sonnet speeds up output by 30%. Update IDE/CLI to access. For details, see GovCloud docs or contact AWS.

π Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.5 and Sonnet 5.5 are on AWS GovCloud (US) in Kiro IDE/CLI. Opus cuts tool calls and tokens by 40% and 50%, while Sonnet speeds up output by 30%. Update IDE/CLI to access. For details, see GovCloud docs or contact AWS.
Anthropic Claude Sonnet 5.5 and Claude Opus 5.5 are now available on Kiro in AWS GovCloud (US)
Two new Anthropic models are now available in the Kiro IDE and CLI for the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions.
Claude Opus 5.5 is Anthropic's most capable Opus model yet and a step up f...
π AWS GovCloud (US) provides cost-efficient, fast Claude Haiku 5.5, 75% cheaper than Haiku 4.5, for real-time agents and high-volume tasks. First with effort controls, fits parallel ops via Opus 5.5. Available on Amazon Bedrock with data residency.
Claude Haiku 5.5 is now available on AWS GovCloud (US)
AWS GovCloud (US) now offers Claude Haiku 5.5, the fastest and most efficient model in the Claude 5.5 family, built for subagents and high-volume, cost-sensitive work. According to Anthropic, it costs arou...
π Amazon EC2 now supports shared tags for AMIs, letting owners add 'ec2:SharedTag/' to tags for visibility across shared accounts at no extra cost. This eliminates custom replication workflows, with shared tags being read-only for recipients and counted only againstβ¦
Amazon EC2 introduces shared tags for Amazon Machine Images
Amazon EC2 now supports AMI tag sharing, a new feature that lets AMI owners make selected tags visible to all AWS accounts an AMI is shared with. Whether an AMI is shared with an account, across an organi...
π AWS now supports Kubernetes 1.37 for Amazon EKS and EKS Distro, adding a new metrics API, dynamic resource allocation, and Horizontal Pod Autoscaler scale-to-zero. Upgrade via EKS console, eksctl, or infrastructure-as-code tools. Available in all EKS regions. See β¦
Amazon EKS and Amazon EKS Distro now support Kubernetes version 1.37
Kubernetes version 1.37 introduced several new features and bug fixes, and AWS is excited to announce that you can now use https://aws.amazon.com/eks/ (EKS) and https://aws.amazon.com/eks/eks-dis...
π Amazon GuardDuty now supports AWS Organizations policies for centralized management, ensuring consistent threat detection across all accounts and regions, reducing configuration drift in multi-account setups. Available in all commercial and GovCloud regions.
Amazon GuardDuty now supports centralized management using AWS Organizations declarative policies
Amazon GuardDuty now supports AWS Organizations declarative policies, enabling you to centrally enable GuardDuty threat detection across every account and Regio...
π Amazon Corretto 8u504 patch update released on September 30, 2026, includes tzdata 2026d updates. Download Corretto 8, 11, 17, 21, 25, or 27 from the Corretto home page or configure Apt, Yum, or Apk repos for Linux. Feedback appreciated!
Amazon Corretto 8 September 2026 Patch Updates
On September 30, 2026, Amazon announced a patch update for the following Amazon Corretto Long-Term Support (LTS) version of OpenJDK: CorrettoΒ 8u504 is now available for https://aws.amazon.com/corretto/. Amazon Co...
π Amazon Connect lets admins manage up to 20,000 data table values for contact center settings, enabling real-time updates of hours and rules without tech help. Available globally.
Amazon Connect Customer now lets business users manage more reference data to adjust contact center configurations in real time
Amazon Connect Customer now lets administrators store more of the reference data that drives their contact center configurations. Ad...
π AWS GovCloud (US) now offers Claude Sonnet 5.5, a smarter, more efficient coding and knowledge tool, faster and lower cost per task, ideal for upgrading from Sonnet 5 for better coding and knowledge work outputs.
Claude Sonnet 5.5 now available on AWS GovCloud (US)
AWS GovCloud (US) now offers Claude Sonnet 5.5, a smarter and more efficient Sonnet that delivers a clear leap forward on coding and knowledge work with at a lower cost per task for most work ag faster speed...
π Amazon Corretto announced patch updates on Sept. 25, 2026, for LTS and FR versions: 25.0.4, 21.0.12, 17.0.20, and 11.0.32. Download latest tzdata 2026d updates. Visit Corretto for versions 27-11. Feedback appreciated!
Amazon Corretto September 2026 Patch Updates
On September 25, 2026, Amazon announced a patch update for the following Amazon Corretto Long-Term Support (LTS) and Feature Release (FR) versions of OpenJDK: Corretto 25.0.4.10.1, 21.0.12.11.1, 17.0.20.12.1, and 1...
π Amazon RDS now supports Multi-AZ for SQL Server Developer Edition, providing high availability with automatic failover. Test configurations at no license cost; see Amazon RDS pricing for details. (248 chars)
Amazon RDS supports Multi-AZ for SQL Server Developer Edition
https://aws.amazon.com/rds/sqlserver/ now supports Multi-AZ deployments using Always On Availability Groups for SQL Server Developer Edition. Multi-AZ deployments maintain a synchronous stan...