Category: Launch

AWS IAM now enables outbound identity federation, allowing developers to securely authenticate AWS workloads with external services using short-lived JSON Web Tokens instead of storing long-term credentials like API keys and passwords.

AWS Step Functions’ enhanced TestState API now enables local unit testing with mocking support, comprehensive state type validation, and individual state testing capabilities without requiring AWS deployment or IAM permissions.

AWS Lambda introduces tenant isolation mode, enabling separate execution environments for each tenant within a single function to meet strict security requirements without managing dedicated per-tenant infrastructure.

Amazon SageMaker Catalog now offers column-level metadata forms and enforced glossary requirements, enabling organizations to improve data classification, discoverability, and governance through standardized business metadata.

AWS Billing Transfer enables customers to centrally manage and pay bills across multiple AWS organizations by allowing billing administrators to transfer payment responsibility while maintaining individual security and governance autonomy over their accounts.

Amazon EKS introduces Container Network Observability, providing enhanced visibility into Kubernetes workload traffic and performance insights to help teams monitor and troubleshoot microservice environments.

Amazon Bedrock introduces three service tiers—Priority, Standard, and Flex—allowing you to optimize AI workload costs by matching performance requirements with pricing for different application needs.

Amazon announces the general availability of EC2 P6-B300 instances, powered by NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra GPUs, which deliver 2x networking bandwidth and 1.5x GPU memory than previous generations, making them well suited for training and serving large-scale AI models with trillion parameters across distributed GPU clusters