AWS News Blog
Category: Launch
AWS Weekly Roundup: Claude Opus 4.7 in Amazon Bedrock, AWS Interconnect GA, and more (April 20, 2026)
Claude Opus 4.7 arrives in Amazon Bedrock with improved agentic coding and a 1M token context window. AWS Interconnect reaches general availability with multicloud private connectivity and a new last-mile option. Plus, post-quantum TLS for Secrets Manager, new C8in/C8ib EC2 instances, and more.
Introducing Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.7 model in Amazon Bedrock
AWS launches Claude Opus 4.7 in Amazon Bedrock, Anthropic’s most intelligent Opus model for advancing performance across coding, long-running agents, and professional work. Claude Opus 4.7 is powered by Amazon Bedrock’s next generation inference engine, purpose-built for generative AI inferencing and fine-tuning workloads.
AWS Interconnect is now generally available, with a new option to simplify last-mile connectivity
Today, we’re announcing the general availability of AWS Interconnect – multicloud, a managed private connectivity service that connects your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) directly to VPCs on other cloud providers. We’re also introducing AWS Interconnect – last mile, a new capability that simplifies how you establish high-speed, private connections to AWS from your […]
Launching S3 Files, making S3 buckets accessible as file systems
Amazon S3 Files makes S3 buckets accessible as high-performance file systems on AWS compute resources, eliminating the tradeoff between object storage benefits and interactive file capabilities while enabling seamless data sharing with ~1ms latencies.
Amazon Bedrock Guardrails supports cross-account safeguards with centralized control and management
Organizational safeguards are now generally available in Amazon Bedrock Guardrails, enabling centralized enforcement and management of safety controls across multiple AWS accounts within an AWS Organization.
Announcing managed daemon support for Amazon ECS Managed Instances
Amazon ECS Managed Daemons gives platform engineers independent control over monitoring, logging, and tracing agents without application team coordination, ensuring consistent daemon deployment and comprehensive host-level observability at scale.
Announcing the AWS Sustainability console: Programmatic access, configurable CSV reports, and Scope 1–3 reporting in one place
AWS announces the Sustainability console, a new standalone service that consolidates carbon emissions reporting and resources, giving sustainability teams independent access to Scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions data without requiring billing permissions.
Customize your AWS Management Console experience with visual settings including account color, region and service visibility
AWS introduces visual customization capability in AWS Management Console that enables selective display of relevant AWS Regions and services for your team members. By hiding unused Regions and services, you can reduce cognitive load and eliminate unnecessary clicks and scrolling, helping you focus better and work faster.






