This week brings an array of innovations spanning from generative AI capabilities to enhancements of foundational services. Whether you’re building AI-powered applications, managing databases, or optimizing your cloud infrastructure, these updates help build more advanced, robust, and flexible applications.
Last week’s launches
Here are the launches that got my attention this week:
- Amazon DocumentDB – Amazon DocumentDB Serverless is now available offering an on-demand, fully managed MongoDB API-compatible document database service. Read more in Channy’s post.
- Amazon Q Developer CLI – You can now create custom agents to help you customize the CLI agent to be more effective when performing specialized tasks such as code reviews and troubleshooting. More info in this blog.
- Amazon Bedrock Data Automation – Now supports DOC/DOCX files for document processing and H.265 encoded video files for video processing, making it easier to build multimodal data analysis pipelines.
- Amazon DynamoDB – Introduced the Amazon DynamoDB data modeling Model Context Protocol (MCP) tool, providing a structured, natural-language-driven workflow to translate application requirements into DynamoDB data models.
- AWS Lambda – Response streaming now supports a default maximum response payload size of 200 MB, 10 times higher than before. Lambda response streaming helps you build applications that progressively stream response payloads back to clients, improving performance for latency sensitive workloads by reducing time to first byte (TTFB) performance.
- Powertools for AWS – Introducing v2 of Powertools for AWS Lambda (Java), a developer toolkit that helps you implement serverless best practices and directly translates AWS Well-Architected recommendations.
- Amazon SNS – Now supports three additional message filtering operators: wildcard matching, anything-but wildcard matching, and anything-but prefix matching. SNS now also supports message group IDs in standard topics, enabling fair queue functionality for subscribed Amazon SQS standard queues.
- Amazon CloudFront – Now offers two capabilities to enhance origin timeout controls: a response completion timeout and support for custom response timeout values for Amazon S3 origins. These capabilities give you more control over how to handle slow or unresponsive origins.
- Amazon EC2 – You are now able to force terminate EC2 instances that are stuck in the shutting-down state.
- Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling – You can now use AWS Lambda functions as notification targets for EC2 Auto Scaling lifecycle hooks. For example, you can use this to trigger custom actions when an instance enters a wait state.
- Amazon SES – You can now provision isolated tenants within a single SES account and apply automated reputation policies to manage email sending.
- AWS Management Console – You can now view your AWS Applications in the Service menu in the console navigation bar. With this view you can see all your Applications and choose an Application to see all its associated resources.
- Amazon Connect – Amazon Connect UI builder now features an updated user interface to reduce the complexity to build structured workflows. It also simplified forecast editing with a new UI experience that improves planning accuracy. The Contact Control Panel now features an updated and more intuitive user interface. Amazon Connect also introduced new actions and workflows into the agent workspace. These actions are powered by third-party applications running in the background.
- AWS Clean Rooms – Now publishes events to Amazon EventBridge for status changes in a Clean Rooms collaboration, further simplifying how companies and their partners analyze and collaborate on their collective datasets without revealing or copying one another’s underlying data.
- AWS Entity Resolution – Introduced rule-based fuzzy matching using Levenshtein Distance, Cosine Similarity, and Soundex algorithms to help resolve consumer records across fragmented, inconsistent, and often incomplete datasets.
Additional updates
Here are some additional projects, blog posts, and news items that I found interesting:
- Amazon Strands Agents SDK: A technical deep dive into agent architectures and observability – Nice overview to build single and multi-agent architectures.
- Build dynamic web research agents with the Strands Agents SDK and Tavily – Showing how easy it is to add a new tool.
- Structured outputs with Amazon Nova: A guide for builders – Good tips implemented on top of native tool use with constrained decoding.
- Automate the creation of handout notes using Amazon Bedrock Data Automation – A solution to build an automated, serverless solution to transform webinar recordings into comprehensive handouts.
- Build modern serverless solutions following best practices using Amazon Q Developer CLI and MCP – Adding the AWS Serverless MCP server.
- Introducing Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Browser Tool – More info on this tool that enables AI agents to interact seamlessly with websites.
- Introducing Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Code Interpreter – A fully managed service that enables AI agents to securely execute code in isolated sandbox environments.
Upcoming AWS events
Check your calendars so that you can sign up for these upcoming events:
AWS re:Invent 2025 (December 1-5, 2025, Las Vegas) — AWS’s flagship annual conference offering collaborative innovation through peer-to-peer learning, expert-led discussions, and invaluable networking opportunities.
AWS Summits — Join free online and in-person events that bring the cloud computing community together to connect, collaborate, and learn about AWS. Register in your nearest city: Mexico City (August 6) and Jakarta (August 7).
AWS Community Days — Join community-led conferences that feature technical discussions, workshops, and hands-on labs led by expert AWS users and industry leaders from around the world: Australia (August 15), Adria (September 5), Baltic (September 10), and Aotearoa (September 18).
Join the AWS Builder Center to learn, build, and connect with builders in the AWS community. Browse here upcoming in-person and virtual developer-focused events.
That’s all for this week. Check back next Monday for another Weekly Roundup!
– Danilo