AWS — Volume 343, Issue 4

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Volume 343, Issue 4 · 15 articles from 2 issues

In This Issue

Why MCP Servers Should Tell Agents What to Do Next (The New Stack, Thursday, October 29th, 2026)

AWS's James Ward says MCP servers should guide agents on next steps and carry session IDs so teams can trace and improve agent journeys. Read more

AWS Continuum for Code Vulnerabilities Is Now Generally Available (AWS, Thursday, October 22nd, 2026)

AWS makes Continuum for code vulnerabilities generally available, validating exploitable findings and proposing fixes. Read more

AWS IAM Identity Center's Identity Store Now Supports Change Notifications Through Amazon EventBridge (AWS, Wednesday, October 28th, 2026)

IAM Identity Center's Identity Store now sends real-time change events to Amazon EventBridge for users, groups and memberships. Read more

Introducing Amazon ECS Gateway: A Fully-Managed Ingress Solution for ECS Services (AWS, Tuesday, October 20th, 2026)

AWS introduces Amazon ECS Gateway, an account-level resource that automates ingress networking for ECS services. Read more

AWS Weekly Roundup: AWS Lambda Web Functions, Amazon S3 on the Vercel Marketplace, and More (October 19, 2026) (AWS, Monday, October 19th, 2026)

AWS's weekly roundup highlights Lambda Web Functions, Amazon S3 on the Vercel Marketplace and other launches. Read more

Amazon Aurora Now Supports Post-Quantum TLS Key Exchange (AWS, Thursday, October 29th, 2026)

Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL 18 and higher now supports post-quantum TLS key exchange via the configurable ssl_groups parameter. Read more

OpenAI GPT-6.1 Terra Is Now Generally Available on Amazon Bedrock (AWS, Monday, October 26th, 2026)

OpenAI GPT-6.1 Terra is now generally available on Amazon Bedrock, with a 1-million-token context window and lower pricing. Read more

Amazon Neptune Now Supports Online Index Rebuild to Reclaim Storage (AWS, Tuesday, October 27th, 2026)

Amazon Neptune Database now supports online index rebuild to defragment indexes and reclaim storage without downtime. Read more

AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon Polly Generative Engine, TorchNeuron for Trainium, and More (October 26, 2026) (AWS, Monday, October 26th, 2026)

AWS weekly roundup covers Continuum for code vulnerabilities, ECS Gateway, new Polly generative voices, TorchNeuron, and more. Read more

AWS Step Functions Workflows Now Available as AI Agent Tools (AWS, Thursday, October 29th, 2026)

AWS Step Functions Standard and Express workflows can now be used as AI agent tools through Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Gateway. Read more

AWS Backup Adds Restore Testing Support for Amazon Redshift (AWS, Wednesday, October 28th, 2026)

AWS Backup restore testing now supports Amazon Redshift, letting teams verify backups restore and measure restore times. Read more

Amazon Managed Grafana Now Supports In-Place Upgrade to Grafana Version 13.2 (AWS, Thursday, October 29th, 2026)

Amazon Managed Grafana supports in-place upgrade from Grafana 12.4 to 13.2, adding Git Sync, dynamic dashboards and PromQL in the CloudWatch plugin. Read more

AWS Lambda Durable Functions Now Exports Live Telemetry for Execution Insights (AWS, Wednesday, October 28th, 2026)

AWS Lambda durable functions get a Telemetry Exporter plugin and an MCP server so AI agents can query execution history. Read more

AWS Backup Now Supports Cross-Account Management and Cross-Account Backup in the AWS European Sovereign Cloud (AWS, Thursday, October 29th, 2026)

AWS Backup now supports cross-account management, cross-account backup and delegated administrators in the AWS European Sovereign Cloud (Germany). Read more

Amazon ECS Now Supports GPU Sharing With NVIDIA Multi-Process Service (MPS) (AWS, Tuesday, October 27th, 2026)

Amazon ECS now lets multiple tasks share a single NVIDIA GPU using Multi-Process Service to improve utilization and cut costs. Read more