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Claude Opus 4.7 lands on Bedrock and AWS Interconnect goes GA in this week's AWS roundup!

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Hey there, it's Shiichan! This week's AWS roundup just landed, so let me pack it up for you. There are two big highlights, and I couldn't stop being excited this morning!

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What was announced?

This is the AWS Weekly Roundup on AWS's Blog, the April 20, 2026 edition, written by Sébastien Stormacq. It opens with a commencement talk built around the idea that "AI will not make you obsolete" - the developers who thrive are the ones who show curiosity, systems thinking, precise communication, and ownership of their work.

The stars of the week are Claude Opus 4.7 arriving in Amazon Bedrock and AWS Interconnect reaching general availability (GA)!

Why it matters

The nice thing about a weekly roundup is that you can catch up on a whole week of scattered updates at once. This week touches AI models, networking, compute, and security, so it's a real treasure box. Even if you were too busy to follow everything, reading this gives you the shape of the week.

What changes

The biggest one is that Anthropic's top-tier Opus 4.7 model can now be called straight from Bedrock. It's strong at coding, autonomous agents, and professional knowledge tasks, scoring 64.3% on SWE-bench Pro. On the networking side, AWS Interconnect going GA makes it much easier to privately connect AWS with other clouds and your sites. For developers, both "try a new model" and "wire up your foundation" moved forward this week.

Dive Deep

Highlights of the week

  • Claude Opus 4.7 in Amazon Bedrock: Anthropic's most advanced Opus model. It brings dynamic capacity allocation, adaptive thinking, up to a 1M-token context window, and high-resolution image support. It's available in four Regions, with up to 10,000 requests per minute per account per Region.
  • AWS Interconnect is now GA: Two managed private-connectivity options went GA. Multicloud gives you Layer 3 private connections between AWS VPCs and other clouds (Google Cloud first; Azure and OCI planned for 2026) with automatic MACsec encryption. Last Mile connects branch offices to AWS through your existing network provider, with automatic redundant connections and adjustable 1-100 Gbps bandwidth.

Last week's launches

  • Amazon ECR Pull Through Cache referrer support: It automatically discovers and syncs OCI referrers (signatures, SBOMs, attestations) from upstream registries, so you can run image signature verification without client-side workarounds.
  • AWS Transform in Kiro and VS Code: The agentic migration and modernization tool is now available as a Kiro Power and a VS Code extension. It supports Java, Python, and Node.js version upgrades and AWS SDK migrations, sharing state across the web console, CLI, and IDE.
  • Aurora DSQL Connector for PHP: A new connector for PDO_PGSQL that automates IAM token generation, SSL configuration, and connection pooling, with optional optimistic concurrency control retry using exponential backoff.
  • Amazon Q document-level access controls for Google Drive: It uses indexed ACL replication for fast pre-retrieval filtering, combined with real-time permission checks against Google Drive at query time.
  • AWS Secrets Manager hybrid post-quantum TLS: It supports hybrid key exchange using ML-KEM, enabled automatically in Secrets Manager Agent 2.0.0+, Lambda Extension v19+, and CSI Driver 2.0.0+.
  • Amazon EC2 C8in and C8ib instances go GA: Powered by custom 6th-gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors and 6th-gen AWS Nitro cards, they deliver up to 43% higher performance than C6in. C8in offers 600 Gbps of network bandwidth, C8ib up to 300 Gbps of EBS bandwidth, scaling to 384 vCPUs.

Other AWS news

Wrap-up

  • The AI highlight is Claude Opus 4.7 arriving in Amazon Bedrock: 64.3% on SWE-bench Pro, 1M tokens, four Regions
  • The networking highlight is AWS Interconnect going GA, with Multicloud and Last Mile options
  • Compute got C8in/C8ib at GA (up to 43% faster than C6in), and security got post-quantum TLS in Secrets Manager
  • ECR, Aurora DSQL, Amazon Q, EBS, and AWS Transform round out a week packed with quietly useful updates

Whether you're an AI developer itching to try a new model or an infra engineer wiring up multicloud and site connectivity, this was a jam-packed week for you!

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