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

AWS weekly roundup covering key launches from late July/early August 2026. Highlights include up to 80% price reductions for OpenAI GPT-5.6 models (Luna and Terra) available through Amazon Bedrock, with Luna now at $0.20/million input tokens. Amazon CloudWatch adds fully managed Prometheus collectors for EKS, EC2, ECS, MSK, and OpenSearch workloads, eliminating the need to self-manage scraping infrastructure. AWS Interconnect for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure reaches general availability, enabling private cross-cloud networking. IAM Identity Center extends multi-Region support to the Identity Center directory for improved resilience. Amazon S3 Tables gains support for the Variant data type in Apache Iceberg V3 for semi-structured data management.

Source: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-weekly-roundup-price-reduction-of-gpt-models-in-bedrock-cloudwatch-managed-collectors-for-prometheus-metrics-and-more-august-3-2026. 8sync News only summarizes and links out; content copyright belongs to the authors and original sources.