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AWS Weekly Roundup: Claude Opus 4.7 in Amazon Bedrock, AWS Interconnect GA, and more (April 20, 2026) | Amazon Web Services (opens in new tab)

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The roundup highlights major AWS advances in AI, networking, developer tooling, and security. Claude Opus 4.7 is now available through Amazon Bedrock with stronger agentic coding and research capabilities, while AWS Interconnect simplifies private connectivity across clouds and remote locations. Additional launches improve container supply-chain security, application modernization, database access, cost attribution, and quantum-resistant encryption.

Anthropic Claude Opus 4.7 in Amazon Bedrock

  • Anthropic’s latest Opus model improves:
    • Agentic coding and long-running tasks
    • Complex code reasoning
    • Document creation, financial analysis, and multi-step research
  • It scores:
    • 64.3% on SWE-bench Pro
    • 87.6% on SWE-bench Verified
  • Bedrock features include:
    • Dynamic capacity allocation
    • Adaptive thinking and request-specific token budgets
    • A 1-million-token context window
    • High-resolution image support for charts, documents, and screen interfaces
  • The model launched in US East, Tokyo, Ireland, and Stockholm, supporting up to 10,000 requests per minute per account and Region.

AWS Interconnect Reaches General Availability

  • AWS Interconnect – Multicloud provides Layer 3 private connectivity between AWS VPCs and other clouds.
    • Google Cloud is supported initially; Azure and OCI are planned.
    • Traffic uses private networks and the AWS global backbone rather than the public internet.
    • Includes MACsec encryption, multi-facility resilience, and CloudWatch monitoring.
    • The underlying specification is open source under Apache 2.0.
  • AWS Interconnect – Last Mile connects branches, data centers, and remote sites to AWS through network providers.
    • Automatically provisions four redundant connections across two physical locations.
    • Configures BGP, MACsec, and Jumbo Frames.
    • Supports adjustable bandwidth from 1 to 100 Gbps.
    • Launches in US East with Lumen.

Developer, Database, and Modernization Updates

  • Amazon ECR pull-through cache now discovers and synchronizes OCI referrers such as signatures, SBOMs, and attestations.
  • AWS Transform is available directly in Kiro and VS Code for migrations such as language-version upgrades and AWS SDK updates.
  • Aurora DSQL’s PHP connector supports IAM authentication, SSL, connection pooling, and optional optimistic-concurrency retries.
  • AWS Transform Custom can modernize VB6 applications into C# ASP.NET Core applications, including COM, ADO, and UI migration challenges.

Security, Access Control, and Cost Management

  • Amazon Q for Google Drive now enforces document-level permissions using indexed ACLs and real-time access checks.
  • AWS Secrets Manager supports hybrid post-quantum TLS using ML-KEM through updated agents, Lambda extensions, and CSI drivers.
  • Amazon Bedrock can attribute inference costs to individual IAM principals, with reporting through CUR 2.0 and aggregation by teams, projects, or cost centers.

Compute, Kubernetes, and Storage

  • EC2 C8in and C8ib instances use sixth-generation Intel Xeon processors and AWS Nitro cards.
    • C8in offers up to 600 Gbps networking.
    • C8ib provides up to 300 Gbps EBS bandwidth.
    • Both scale to 384 vCPUs.
  • EKS Auto Mode automates networking components such as VPC CNI, load balancers, and DNS while retaining enterprise security controls.
  • EBS Volume Clones provide immediately usable point-in-time copies for development, disaster recovery testing, and CI/CD workflows.

Additional AWS Guidance

  • CloudFront Functions and CloudFront KeyValueStore can support zero-downtime API decomposition using user-aware routing and the Strangler Fig pattern.
  • The roundup also points readers to AWS events, weekly Power Hour training, and Community.aws meetups.

The most significant developments are Bedrock’s expanded AI capabilities and Interconnect’s managed private networking. Teams should evaluate Claude Opus 4.7 for complex AI workflows, use Interconnect where multicloud or resilient connectivity is required, and consider the new security and cost-attribution features for stronger governance.