Twenty years in the past this previous week, Amazon S3 launched publicly on March 14, 2006. Whereas Amazon Easy Storage Service is commonly thought of 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 tons of of exabytes of information, and the value has dropped to simply 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 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 turned, 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 characteristic this week: Account regional namespaces for Amazon S3 basic function buckets. With this characteristic, you’ll be able to create basic function buckets in your personal account regional namespace by appending your account’s distinctive suffix to your requested bucket identify, making certain your required names are at all times reserved completely to your account. You may 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 publish to study extra about account regional namespaces for Amazon S3 basic function buckets.
This week’s featured launch is one I’ve a private connection to: the overall availability of Amazon Route 53 World Resolver. I wrote in regards to the preview of this functionality again in December at re:Invent 2025, and I had a good time placing that publish collectively, so I’m comfortable to listen to that it’s typically obtainable now.
Amazon Route 53 World Resolver is an internet-reachable anycast DNS resolver that gives DNS decision for approved purchasers from any location. It’s now typically obtainable throughout 30 AWS Areas, with assist for each IPv4 and IPv6 DNS question visitors. Route 53 World Resolver offers approved purchasers in your group anycast DNS decision of public web domains and personal domains related to Route 53 personal hosted zones — from any location, not simply from inside a particular VPC or Area. It additionally gives DNS question filtering to dam probably malicious domains, domains that aren’t secure for work, and domains related to superior DNS threats resembling DNS tunneling and Area Era Algorithms (DGA). Centralized question logging is included as properly. With basic availability, World Resolver provides safety towards Dictionary DGA threats.
Final week’s launches
Listed here 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 sources, prompts, and instruments. With stateful MCP periods, every consumer session runs in a devoted microVM with remoted sources, and the server maintains session context throughout a number of interactions utilizing an
Mcp-Session-Idheader. Elicitation permits server-initiated, multi-turn conversations to collect structured enter from customers throughout instrument execution. Sampling permits servers to request LLM-generated content material from the consumer for duties resembling customized suggestions. Progress notifications hold 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 are actually obtainable for Amazon WorkSpaces Private and Amazon WorkSpaces Core. These bundles embrace safety capabilities resembling 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 obtainable. You should use the managed Home windows Server 2025 bundles or create a customized bundle and picture. This assist is out there in all AWS Areas the place Amazon WorkSpaces is out there. For extra data, go to the Amazon WorkSpaces FAQs.
- AWS Builder ID now helps Register with GitHub and Amazon — AWS Builder ID now helps two extra social login choices: GitHub and Amazon. These choices be a 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 Heart, AWS Coaching and Certification, and Kiro — utilizing their current 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 steadily used COPY parameters. Templates assist preserve consistency throughout information ingestion operations, scale back the hassle required to execute COPY instructions, and simplify upkeep by making use of template updates robotically to all future makes use of. Assist 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 should definitely keep watch over our Information Weblog channel the What’s New with AWS web page.
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— Esra
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