AWS News Blog
Category: Launch
Modernize your workflows: Amazon WorkSpaces now gives AI agents their own desktop (preview)
Amazon WorkSpaces now lets AI agents securely operate legacy desktop applications—without APIs or modernization—using IAM authentication, MCP support, and computer vision within existing security frameworks.
AWS Weekly Roundup: What’s Next with AWS 2026, Amazon Quick, OpenAI partnership, and more (May 4, 2026)
Last week, I took some time off in York, England, often described as the most haunted city in the country. I wandered through the ruins of abbeys that have stood for nearly a thousand years, walked along medieval walls, and spent an evening on a ghost tour hearing stories passed down through centuries. There’s something […]
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.







