Graviton5 arrived in R9g instances, Lambda SnapStart reached container images, Lambda Managed Instances got 90-minute timeouts, Amazon Linux 2027 entered preview, CloudWatch Omni went GA, Aurora learned to query Iceberg, and Bedrock added Claude Opus 5.5, Claude Fable 5.1 and the GPT-6 family. Filtered for small and mid-sized teams, with an action for each.
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What Changed on AWS in October 2026, and What to Do About It
Lambda Web Functions, ECS Gateway, the Well-Architected Agent, Bedrock Managed Agents powered by OpenAI, Claude Haiku 5.5, GuardDuty spotting database exfiltration, Redshift Iceberg materialized views, and the services moving to maintenance or sunset. The month's launches filtered for small and mid-sized teams, with an action for each.
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Prime Day 2026 on AWS by the Numbers, and What They Tell the Rest of Us
DynamoDB peaked at 192 million requests a second, Lambda ran 2.3 trillion invocations a day, ECS and Fargate ran 158 million tasks a day, Graviton powered 49% of Amazon.com's EC2 compute and Amazon ran more than 44,000 fault-injection experiments beforehand. What those numbers say for teams a millionth of the size.
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