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AWS Weekly Roundup: Price reduction of GPT models in Bedrock, CloudWatch managed collectors for Prometheus metrics, and more (August 3, 2026)

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This AWS Weekly Roundup highlights major service updates and price reductions across AI, observability, multicloud networking, and data management.

  • Amazon Bedrock reduces GPT-5.6 Luna prices by 80% and Terra by 20%, making frontier-class models more affordable
  • CloudWatch now offers managed Prometheus collectors for monitoring EKS, EC2, ECS, MSK, and OpenSearch without agent deployment
  • AWS Interconnect achieves general availability for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure multicloud connectivity
  • IAM Identity Center extends multi-Region support to Identity Center directory for improved disaster recovery
  • Amazon S3 Tables adds Variant data type support for Apache Iceberg V3 to handle semi-structured data efficiently

The roundup showcases AWS's continued investment in cost optimization, operational simplification, and multicloud capabilities.

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