AWS — Volume 341, Issue 2

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Volume 341, Issue 2 · 15 articles from 4 issues

In This Issue

AWS Weekly Roundup: One-Click Lambda Setup Prompt, OpenAI GPT-5.6 Models on Bedrock, and More (AWS, Monday, July 20th, 2026)

AWS's weekly roundup highlights a one-click Lambda setup prompt for coding agents and OpenAI GPT-5.6 models on Amazon Bedrock. Read more

Amazon RDS for SQL Server Now Supports Restoring TDE Databases on Multi-AZ Instances (AWS, Monday, July 27th, 2026)

Native backup and restore of TDE-enabled SQL Server databases now works on Multi-AZ instances and read replicas. Read more

Authenticate Legitimate AI Agent Traffic With AWS WAF Bot Control (AWS, Tuesday, July 14th, 2026)

AWS details how WAF Bot Control can verify AI agent traffic where IP-based filtering breaks down in shared multi-tenant environments. Read more

AWS Weekly Roundup: AWS Builder Center at 1 Year, Network Scanning in Security Hub, Loom for AWS, and More (AWS, Monday, July 13th, 2026)

AWS recaps Builder Center's first year plus Security Hub network scanning, SageMaker Hugging Face integration, and GPU fee cuts. Read more

AWS Transform Continuous Modernization is Now Generally Available (AWS, Monday, August 3rd, 2026)

AWS Transform continuous modernization reaches general availability for at-scale technical debt remediation. Read more

How AgentCore Gateway Supports the MCP 2026-07-28 Spec (AWS, Tuesday, July 28th, 2026)

The Model Context Protocol's largest revision since launch makes MCP stateless, and Bedrock AgentCore Gateway now supports it. Read more

Eliminating Java Cold Starts With AWS Lambda Managed Instances (AWS, Monday, July 13th, 2026)

AWS shows how Lambda Managed Instances keep JVM execution environments warm to remove multi-second Java cold start penalties. Read more

OpenAI GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna Now Support 1 Million Token Context Windows on Amazon Bedrock (AWS, Monday, August 3rd, 2026)

OpenAI GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna gain 1 million token context windows on Amazon Bedrock. Read more

Amazon Aurora Serverless Now Scales Faster to Support Agentic AI and Other Bursty Workloads (AWS, Wednesday, August 5th, 2026)

Amazon Aurora serverless scales to 12 ACUs within a second to serve bursty agentic AI workloads. Read more

OpenAI GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna Are Now Generally Available on Amazon Bedrock (AWS, Monday, July 13th, 2026)

OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna models reach general availability on Amazon Bedrock's next-generation inference engine. Read more

Amazon DynamoDB Now Supports Real-Time Vector Search (AWS, Wednesday, August 5th, 2026)

Amazon DynamoDB adds generally available real-time vector search. Read more

Introducing Grok on Amazon Bedrock (AWS, Thursday, July 16th, 2026)

xAI's Grok 4.3 arrives on Amazon Bedrock with configurable reasoning effort, tool calling, structured output, and image input. Read more

Amazon Bedrock Launches Web Search for OpenAI GPT Models (AWS, Tuesday, August 4th, 2026)

Amazon Bedrock launches server-side Web Search so OpenAI GPT models can ground answers in current web data. Read more

Security Hub Adds AI Workload Protection and Multicloud Support for Microsoft Azure (AWS, Tuesday, July 14th, 2026)

AWS Security Hub gains purpose-built AI workload protection and extends its posture management across Microsoft Azure environments. Read more

Introducing Amazon GuardDuty AI Protection for AWS AI Workloads (AWS, Tuesday, July 14th, 2026)

GuardDuty extends threat detection to Amazon Bedrock and SageMaker, flagging anomalous model invocations, cost harvesting, and prompt injection. Read more