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Twenty years in the past this previous week, Amazon S3 launched publicly on March 14, 2006. Whereas Amazon Easy Storage Service is usually thought-about the foundational storage service that outlined cloud infrastructure, what started as a easy object storage service has grown into one thing far bigger in scope and scale.
As of March 2026, S3 shops greater than 500 trillion objects, serves greater than 200 million requests per second globally throughout a whole bunch of exabytes of information, and the value has dropped to only over 2 cents per gigabyte — an roughly 85% discount since launch. My colleague Sébastien Stormacq wrote an in depth take a look at the engineering and the highway forward in Twenty years of Amazon S3 and constructing what’s subsequent, and if you wish to examine these earliest clients and the way they formed what AWS turned, I like to recommend How three startups helped Amazon invent cloud computing and paved the way in which for AI. Twenty years is price pausing to have a good time.
Alongside the twentieth anniversary of S3, Channy Yun additionally wrote a few new S3 function this week: Account regional namespaces for Amazon S3 normal goal buckets. With this function, you may create normal goal buckets in your individual account regional namespace by appending your account’s distinctive suffix to your requested bucket identify, guaranteeing your required names are at all times reserved completely in your account. You possibly can implement adoption throughout your group utilizing AWS IAM insurance policies and AWS Organizations service management insurance policies with the brand new s3:x-amz-bucket-namespace situation key. Learn Channy’s put up to be taught extra about account regional namespaces for Amazon S3 normal goal buckets.
This week’s featured launch is one I’ve a private connection to: the normal availability of Amazon Route 53 International Resolver. I wrote concerning the preview of this functionality again in December at re:Invent 2025, and I had a good time placing that put up collectively, so I’m comfortable to listen to that it’s usually accessible now.
Amazon Route 53 International Resolver is an internet-reachable anycast DNS resolver that gives DNS decision for licensed purchasers from any location. It’s now usually accessible throughout 30 AWS Areas, with assist for each IPv4 and IPv6 DNS question visitors. Route 53 International Resolver offers licensed purchasers in your group anycast DNS decision of public web domains and personal domains related to Route 53 non-public hosted zones — from any location, not simply from inside a particular VPC or Area. It additionally supplies DNS question filtering to dam probably malicious domains, domains that aren’t secure for work, and domains related to superior DNS threats akin to DNS tunneling and Area Technology Algorithms (DGA). Centralized question logging is included as nicely. With normal availability, International Resolver provides safety towards Dictionary DGA threats.
Final week’s launches
Listed below are a few of the different bulletins from final week:
- Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime now helps stateful MCP server options — Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime now helps stateful Mannequin Context Protocol (MCP) server options, enabling builders to construct MCP servers that use elicitation, sampling, and progress notifications alongside current assist for assets, prompts, and instruments. With stateful MCP classes, every person session runs in a devoted microVM with remoted assets, and the server maintains session context throughout a number of interactions utilizing an
Mcp-Session-Idheader. Elicitation allows server-initiated, multi-turn conversations to assemble structured enter from customers throughout instrument execution. Sampling permits servers to request LLM-generated content material from the shopper for duties akin to customized suggestions. Progress notifications maintain purchasers knowledgeable throughout long-running operations. To be taught extra, see the Amazon Bedrock AgentCore documentation. - Amazon WorkSpaces now helps Microsoft Home windows Server 2025 — New bundles powered by Microsoft Home windows Server 2025 are actually accessible for Amazon WorkSpaces Private and Amazon WorkSpaces Core. These bundles embrace safety capabilities akin to Trusted Platform Module 2.0 (TPM 2.0), Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) Safe Boot, Secured-core server, Credential Guard, Hypervisor-protected Code Integrity (HVCI), and DNS-over-HTTPS. Current Home windows Server 2016, 2019, and 2022 bundles stay accessible. You should use the managed Home windows Server 2025 bundles or create a customized bundle and picture. This assist is on the market in all AWS Areas the place Amazon WorkSpaces is on the market. For extra info, go to the Amazon WorkSpaces FAQs.
- AWS Builder ID now helps Check in with GitHub and Amazon — AWS Builder ID now helps two extra social login choices: GitHub and Amazon. These choices be a part of the present Google and Apple sign-in capabilities. With this replace, builders can entry their AWS Builder ID profile — and providers together with AWS Builder Middle, AWS Coaching and Certification, and Kiro — utilizing their current GitHub or Amazon account credentials, with out managing a separate set of credentials. To be taught extra and get began, go to the AWS Builder ID documentation.
- Amazon Redshift introduces reusable templates for COPY operations — Amazon Redshift now helps templates for the COPY command, permitting you to retailer and reuse ceaselessly used COPY parameters. Templates assist keep consistency throughout information ingestion operations, scale back the hassle required to execute COPY instructions, and simplify upkeep by making use of template updates routinely to all future makes use of. Assist for COPY templates is on the market in all AWS Areas the place Amazon Redshift is on the market, together with the AWS GovCloud (US) Areas. To get began, see the documentation or learn the Standardize Amazon Redshift operations utilizing Templates weblog.
For a full listing of AWS bulletins, remember to control our Information Weblog channel the What’s New with AWS web page.
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AWS Group Days – Group-led conferences the place content material is deliberate, sourced, and delivered by neighborhood leaders, that includes technical discussions, workshops, and hands-on labs. Upcoming occasions embrace Pune (March 21), San Francisco (April 10), and Romania (April 23-24).
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