AWS AI Updates: July 23, 2026

1. Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio Adds Amazon OpenSearch As A Data Source

AWS. AWS added Amazon OpenSearch as a supported data source in Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio, letting users query and analyze search and log analytics data alongside assets from Amazon Redshift, Amazon S3, and relational databases in a single environment. Teams can query OpenSearch through the query editor, explore it in notebooks, and pull it into visual ETL jobs after adding an OpenSearch connection in a project’s data section. The integration targets workflows that correlate application logs and metrics with transactional data, and it is available in all AWS Regions where SageMaker Unified Studio runs. Source

2. Amazon EKS Adds EFA And Placement Group Support For Distributed Training

AWS. AWS added Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) and EC2 placement group support to Amazon EKS Auto Mode and Karpenter, positioned for distributed training and inference workloads. Node pools can now configure network interfaces as EFA-only or standard ENI on EFA-capable instances, and EFA-only interfaces retain full interconnect bandwidth without consuming IP addresses. Placement groups support cluster, spread, and partition strategies directly from node pool configuration, helping teams maximize throughput for distributed training jobs or minimize blast radius for critical services, and the features are available in all AWS Regions where Amazon EKS is available. Source