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A CloudFront routing-configuration failure tied to VPC Origins triggered widespread 5xx errors on July 16, hitting Hugging Face and the UK National Lottery before AWS restored service.

AWS added an Express mode to CloudFormation that ends deployments once configuration is applied instead of waiting for resources to stabilize, available in all commercial Regions at no extra cost.

AWS launched Blocks, an open-source Apache 2.0 TypeScript framework in preview that lets developers define application code and AWS infrastructure together and run a full local backend with no AWS account.

AWS added Grok 4.3 to Bedrock on June 15, making xAI a model provider on the platform and debuting a separate Mantle inference path.

Snowflake's $6 billion, five-year AWS commitment is 2.4 times its 2023 deal, leaning on Graviton CPUs and GPU-accelerated EC2 to power agentic AI workloads.

AWS launched the next-generation OpenSearch Serverless on May 28, decoupling compute from storage to hit true scale-to-zero and 20x faster autoscaling for bursty agentic workloads.

AWS released ExtendDB v0.1 on May 20, an Apache 2.0 adapter implementing the DynamoDB wire protocol on pluggable backends including PostgreSQL and Apache Cassandra, targeting local dev, CI/CD, on-premises, and hybrid environments.

A cooling system failure in a single Northern Virginia availability zone triggered a 20-hour AWS outage that physically damaged EC2 and EBS hardware and brought down core trading services at Coinbase.

Amazon's cloud division hit a $150 billion annualized run rate at 28% growth, while AI services crossed $15 billion and custom chips topped $20 billion.

Amazon Aurora Serverless platform version 4 scales 45% faster and delivers up to 30% better throughput at no extra cost, targeting agentic AI workloads.

AWS launched OpenAI's frontier models, Codex, and Bedrock Managed Agents in limited preview on April 28, 2026, one day after Microsoft's seven-year exclusivity over OpenAI's IP was rewritten to a non-exclusive license through 2032.

Amazon's new managed gateway eliminates the need to make on-premises pod CIDRs routable from a VPC, using leader-elected EC2 nodes, VXLAN tunnels, and Cilium VTEP entries to bridge cloud and on-prem Kubernetes traffic.