📅 Covering AWS announcements from **Sep 25, 2026 – Oct 2, 2026* (UTC).*
This week, AWS has rolled out a slew of serverless-focused announcements aimed at enhancing security, performance, and developer experience. Let's dive into the latest updates that matter to serverless developers.
Security Enhancements
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Gateway now supports private TLS certificates for VPC endpoints, allowing secure connections to targets within a VPC. This enhances the security and customization options for serverless applications. Read more
AWS has integrated Amazon GuardDuty Runtime Monitoring into the AWS Security Hub Threat Analytics plan, providing more comprehensive threat detection capabilities for EC2 instances. Read more
Storage and Database Improvements
Amazon Redshift now supports cross-Region queries for your data lake, enabling querying of Amazon S3 data lake tables across different AWS Regions while keeping data traffic within the user's VPC. Read more
Amazon DynamoDB introduces filtered export to Amazon S3, allowing users to export specific items from their tables based on defined criteria. Read more
Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) is now available in 17 additional regions, providing low-latency access and improved performance for DynamoDB tables. Read more
Amazon Aurora serverless now scales up to 16 ACUs within a second and up to 256 ACUs in total, enhancing its ability to support bursty workloads such as agentic AI. Read more
Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) now supports retryable writes, enhancing the resilience of MongoDB-compatible applications by automatically retrying failed write operations during transient errors. Read more
AI and Machine Learning
OpenAI GPT-6.1 Sol is now generally available on Amazon Bedrock, enhancing capabilities for agentic coding, computer use, and professional tasks. Read more
Grok 4.7 is now available on Amazon Bedrock, enhancing capabilities for coding, agentic tasks, and knowledge work with improved features and global inference support. Read more
Amazon Bedrock Managed Agents, powered by OpenAI, is now available in preview, offering serverless developers a managed service to build agents optimized for OpenAI models. Read more
Data and Analytics
Serverless Storage on Amazon EMR Serverless now supports terabyte-scale shuffle, allowing data engineers and data scientists to handle larger-scale data processing tasks more efficiently. Read more
Developer Tools and Infrastructure
The AWS CLI now supports bulk skill updates and version checks for the Agent Toolkit, simplifying the process of keeping agent skills current. Read more
Implementing customer managed keys for AWS Lambda durable functions with Terraform is now possible, enhancing data security for regulated workloads. Read more
Amazon Connect Customer now allows administrators to manage up to 20,000 values per table for contact center configurations, enhancing real-time adjustments. Read more
Frozen package management for air-gapped RHEL-family AMIs has been introduced, ensuring secure package management and human approval for changes. Read more
Amazon ElastiCache Serverless for Valkey now supports public endpoints, enabling direct access from outside AWS environments. Read more
Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition has been updated to support new PostgreSQL versions, including 18.6, 17.11, 16.15, 15.19, and 14.24, offering improved features and bug fixes. Read more
AWS Marketplace and Governance
AWS Marketplace launches an AI agent skill for usage-based metering integration, streamlining the process of building and deploying metering integrations. Read more
Event-Driven Applications
Building event-driven applications at scale with Amazon EventBridge has been relaunched, introducing enhancements like retention, ordering, open formats, transformation, and direct target delivery. Read more
Improving Lambda function latency with scalable network bandwidth has been introduced, allowing sustained throughput to scale from 625 Mbps up to 3,000 Mbps at 10,240 MB. Read more
Case Studies and Architectures
Datalex, an airline ecommerce leader, successfully modernized a core reservation component using AWS Experience-Based Acceleration and agentic AI. Read more
MHK has developed a HIPAA-compliant AI solution using Amazon Bedrock, Amazon ECS, and event-driven architecture, significantly improving efficiency in medical review and AI deployment. Read more
Build adaptive AI interfaces with the AG-UI protocol, agent swarms, and Nova Act on AWS, introducing tools to create AI interfaces that dynamically adjust to varying agent outputs. Read more
What this means
This week's announcements reflect AWS's ongoing commitment to enhancing security, performance, and developer experience for serverless applications. From improved AI capabilities and database enhancements to better security features and developer tools, there is something for every serverless developer to leverage in their projects.
📦 New Releases This Week
Additional announcement(s) from 2026-09-25 – 2026-10-02 (UTC) not covered above:
What's New
- OpenAI GPT-6 Astra now supports UltraFast mode on Amazon Bedrock
- Amazon Bedrock expands Claude models in-region support in the UK (London)
- Amazon Bedrock expands Claude model availability to India, South Korea, and Singapore
- Claude Sonnet 5.5 now available on AWS GovCloud (US)
- Claude Sonnet 5.5 now available on AWS
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🤖 This post was automatically generated by AI using Amazon Bedrock (model
amazon.nova-lite-v1:0). It summarizes recent AWS announcements and may contain inaccuracies — please verify details against the official AWS sources linked above.
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