AWS DevOps Agent adds release management capabilities to assess code changes before production (preview)

By Dustin Ward

Today, we’re announcing a new release management capability in AWS DevOps Agent that is now available in preview. AWS DevOps Agent is your always-available teammate that spans software changes and operations across AWS, multicloud, and on-premises environments. The practice of DevOps aims to make software change and operations smooth and increasingly autonomous, and AWS DevOps…

AWS Security Agent adds threat modeling, Kiro power and Claude Code plugin, and more

By Dustin Ward

At re:Invent 2025, we previewed AWS Security Agent (now part of AWS Continuum), a frontier agent that proactively secures your applications throughout the development lifecycle across all your environments. You can perform on-demand penetration testing customized to your application, discovering and reporting security risks verified through exploitability testing. Since the preview, we announced general availability…

Now available: Amazon EC2 M9g and M9gd instances powered by new AWS Graviton5 processors

By Dustin Ward

AWS Graviton processors have improved steadily across generations, with each iteration delivering advances in compute performance, price-performance, and energy efficiency. At re:Invent 2025, we announced Amazon EC2 M9g, the first Graviton5-powered instances, in preview. Since then, customers have tested M9g across a wide range of workloads and shared their results. ClickHouse saw a 36% performance…