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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 commonly 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 lots of of exabytes of knowledge, and the worth has dropped to only over 2 cents per gigabyte — an roughly 85% discount since launch. My colleague Sébastien Stormacq wrote an in depth have a look at the engineering and the street 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 grew to become, I like to recommend How three startups helped Amazon invent cloud computing and paved the way in which for AI. Twenty years is value 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 basic objective buckets. With this function, you may create basic objective buckets in your personal account regional namespace by appending your account’s distinctive suffix to your requested bucket title, making certain your required names are at all times reserved solely to your account. You’ll be able to 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 submit to study extra about account regional namespaces for Amazon S3 basic objective buckets.
This week’s featured launch is one I’ve a private connection to: the basic availability of Amazon Route 53 World Resolver. I wrote concerning the preview of this functionality again in December at re:Invent 2025, and I had a good time placing that submit collectively, so I’m glad to listen to that it’s typically accessible now.
Amazon Route 53 World Resolver is an internet-reachable anycast DNS resolver that gives DNS decision for licensed purchasers from any location. It’s now typically accessible throughout 30 AWS Areas, with help for each IPv4 and IPv6 DNS question visitors. Route 53 World 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 doubtlessly malicious domains, domains that aren’t protected for work, and domains related to superior DNS threats akin to DNS tunneling and Area Technology Algorithms (DGA). Centralized question logging is included as properly. With basic availability, World Resolver provides safety in opposition to 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 present help for assets, prompts, and instruments. With stateful MCP classes, every consumer 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 consumer for duties akin to personalised suggestions. Progress notifications maintain purchasers knowledgeable throughout long-running operations. To study 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 at the moment are accessible for Amazon WorkSpaces Private and Amazon WorkSpaces Core. These bundles embody 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. Present Home windows Server 2016, 2019, and 2022 bundles stay accessible. You need to use the managed Home windows Server 2025 bundles or create a customized bundle and picture. This help is out there in all AWS Areas the place Amazon WorkSpaces is out there. 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 part of the prevailing 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 present GitHub or Amazon account credentials, with out managing a separate set of credentials. To study 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 regularly used COPY parameters. Templates assist preserve consistency throughout information ingestion operations, scale back the trouble required to execute COPY instructions, and simplify upkeep by making use of template updates routinely to all future makes use of. Help for COPY templates is out there in all AWS Areas the place Amazon Redshift is out there, 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 checklist of AWS bulletins, you’ll want to control our Information Weblog channel the What’s New with AWS web page.
Upcoming AWS occasions
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AWS Summits – Be a part of AWS Summits in 2026, free in-person occasions the place you may discover rising cloud and AI applied sciences, study finest practices, and community with business friends and specialists. Upcoming Summits embody Paris (April 1), London (April 22), and Bengaluru (April 23–24).
AWS Group Days – Group-led conferences the place content material is deliberate, sourced, and delivered by group leaders, that includes technical discussions, workshops, and hands-on labs. Upcoming occasions embody Pune (March 21), San Francisco (April 10), and Romania (April 23-24).
AWS at NVIDIA GTC 2026 — Be a part of us at our AWS classes, cubicles, demos, and ancillary occasions in NVIDIA GTC 2026 on March 16 – 19, 2026 in San Jose. You’ll be able to obtain 20% off occasion passes by AWS and request a 1:1 assembly at GTC.
AWS Group GameDay Europe — Happening on March 17, 2026, AWS Group GameDay Europe is a team-based, hands-on AWS problem occasion working concurrently throughout 50+ cities in Europe. Your staff is dropped right into a damaged AWS setting — misconfigured providers, failing architectures, and safety gaps — and has two hours to repair as a lot as doable. Discover your nearest metropolis and enroll at awsgameday.eu.
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