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Amazon S3 Metadata now supports metadata for all your S3 objects
Amazon S3 Metadata now provides comprehensive visibility into all objects in S3 buckets through live inventory and journal tables, enabling SQL-based analysis of both existing and new objects with automatic updates within an hour of changes.
New: Improve Apache Iceberg query performance in Amazon S3 with sort and z-order compaction
Amazon S3 now enables improved Apache Iceberg query performance through two new compaction strategies—sort and z-order—available for both S3 Tables and general purpose S3 buckets, helping organize data more efficiently by clustering similar values together and reducing file scanning during queries.
AWS Weekly Roundup: re:Inforce re:Cap, Valkey GLIDE 2.0, Avro and Protobuf or MCP Servers on Lambda, and more (June 23, 2025)
Last week’s hallmark event was the security-focused AWS re:Inforce conference. Now a tradition, the blog team wrote a re:Cap post to summarize the announcements and link to some of the top blog posts. To further summarize, several new security innovations were announced, including enhanced IAM Access Analyzer capabilities, MFA enforcement for root users, and threat […]
Introducing Claude 4 in Amazon Bedrock, the most powerful models for coding from Anthropic
Claude Opus 4 is now available on Amazon Bedrock for developers to build advanced AI agents with improved reasoning and coding capabilities, as well as expanded context for building more autonomous AI agents that can handle complex, multistep workflows across software development and enterprise operations. Claude Sonnet 4, which is optimized for high-volume production workloads is coming soon.
Configure System Integrity Protection (SIP) on Amazon EC2 Mac instances
Amazon EC2 Mac developers can now programmatically disable System Integrity Protection (SIP) through API and command line to modify core system files and settings that are typically restricted for security purposes.
Introducing the AWS Product Lifecycle page and AWS service availability updates
Today, we’re introducing the AWS Product Lifecycle page, a centralized resource that provides comprehensive information about service availability changes across AWS. The new AWS Product Lifecycle page consolidates all service availability information in one convenient location. This dedicated resource offers detailed visibility into three key categories of changes: 1) services closing access to new customers, […]
AWS announces Pixtral Large 25.02 model in Amazon Bedrock serverless
Mistral AI’s multimodal model, Pixtral Large 25.02, is now available in Amazon Bedrock as a fully managed, serverless offering with cross-Region inference support, multilingual capabilities, and a 128K context window that can process images alongside text.
AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon EKS, Amazon OpenSearch, Amazon API Gateway, and more (April 7, 2025)
AWS Summit season starts this week! These free events are now rolling out worldwide, bringing our cloud computing community together to connect, collaborate, and learn. Whether you prefer joining us online or in-person, these gatherings offer valuable opportunities to expand your AWS knowledge. I will be attending the Summit in Paris this week, the biggest […]