AWS, Thursday, October 29th, 2026
AWS Step Functions Workflows Now Available as AI Agent Tools
AWS Step Functions Standard and Express workflows can now be used as AI agent tools through Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Gateway.
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Vol 343 · Issue 4
AWS — Archive · Vol 343 Issue 4
17 articles that week
AWS, Thursday, October 29th, 2026
AWS Backup Now Supports Cross-Account Management and Cross-Account Backup in the AWS European Sovereign Cloud
AWS Backup now supports cross-account management, cross-account backup and delegated administrators in the AWS European Sovereign Cloud (Germany).
more → AWS, Thursday, October 29th, 2026
Amazon Managed Grafana Now Supports In-Place Upgrade to Grafana Version 13.2
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.
more → AWS, Thursday, October 29th, 2026
Amazon Aurora Now Supports Post-Quantum TLS Key Exchange
Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL 18 and higher now supports post-quantum TLS key exchange via the configurable ssl_groups parameter.
more → The New Stack, Thursday, October 29th, 2026
Why MCP Servers Should Tell Agents What to Do Next
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.
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The New Stack, Thursday, October 29th, 2026
AWS's Hydro Team Wants the Compiler to Catch Coding Agents' Mistakes
AWS Hydro research lead Shadaj Laddad argues compilers, not code review, should catch coding agents' distributed-systems mistakes.
more → AWS, Wednesday, October 28th, 2026
Quick Now Supports Smart Approvals for Agentic Actions
Amazon Quick adds smart approvals, cutting routine approval prompts while sending higher-impact agent actions to users for review.
more → AWS, Wednesday, October 28th, 2026
Public Endpoints for Amazon ElastiCache Serverless Now in AWS GovCloud (US)
Amazon ElastiCache Serverless for Valkey now supports public endpoints in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions, with IAM authentication over TLS 1.3.
more → AWS, Wednesday, October 28th, 2026
Introducing Time Series Collections for the Next Generation of Amazon OpenSearch Serverless
Next-generation Amazon OpenSearch Serverless adds time series collections with a lower-cost warm storage tier for logs, metrics and traces.
more → AWS, Wednesday, October 28th, 2026
AWS Lambda Supports Seekable OCI (SOCI) Lazy Loading for Lambda Managed Instances
AWS Lambda Managed Instances now supports SOCI lazy loading of container images, cutting container startup times by up to 70%.
more → AWS, Wednesday, October 28th, 2026
AWS Lambda Durable Functions Now Exports Live Telemetry for Execution Insights
AWS Lambda durable functions get a Telemetry Exporter plugin and an MCP server so AI agents can query execution history.
more → AWS, Wednesday, October 28th, 2026
AWS IAM Identity Center's Identity Store Now Supports Change Notifications Through Amazon EventBridge
IAM Identity Center's Identity Store now sends real-time change events to Amazon EventBridge for users, groups and memberships.
more → AWS, Wednesday, October 28th, 2026
AWS Backup Adds Restore Testing Support for Amazon Redshift
AWS Backup restore testing now supports Amazon Redshift, letting teams verify backups restore and measure restore times.
more → AWS, Tuesday, October 27th, 2026
Amazon Neptune Now Supports Online Index Rebuild to Reclaim Storage
Amazon Neptune Database now supports online index rebuild to defragment indexes and reclaim storage without downtime.
more → AWS, Tuesday, October 27th, 2026
Amazon ECS Now Supports GPU Sharing With NVIDIA Multi-Process Service (MPS)
Amazon ECS now lets multiple tasks share a single NVIDIA GPU using Multi-Process Service to improve utilization and cut costs.
more → AWS, Monday, October 26th, 2026
OpenAI GPT-6.1 Terra Is Now Generally Available on Amazon Bedrock
OpenAI GPT-6.1 Terra is now generally available on Amazon Bedrock, with a 1-million-token context window and lower pricing.
more → AWS, Monday, October 26th, 2026
AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon Polly Generative Engine, TorchNeuron for Trainium, and More (October 26, 2026)
AWS weekly roundup covers Continuum for code vulnerabilities, ECS Gateway, new Polly generative voices, TorchNeuron, and more.
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