# AWS What's New Scraper - Product Announcements & Launches (`scrapeworks/aws-whats-new`) Actor

Scrape AWS What's New as clean JSON: every AWS product announcement, feature launch, and regional expansion - with headline, URL, publish date, service categories, and full text. Bulk-search the 20,000+ announcement archive by keyword.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/scrapeworks/aws-whats-new.md
- **Developed by:** [Nicolas van Arkens](https://apify.com/scrapeworks) (community)
- **Categories:** Developer tools, News
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
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## Pricing

from $4.00 / 1,000 results

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

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You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

## AWS What's New Scraper - Product Announcements & Launches

Scrape **AWS What's New** - every Amazon Web Services product announcement, feature
launch, and regional expansion - as clean, structured JSON. This actor reads the
public feed behind [aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/)
(**no login, no API key**) and returns headline, canonical URL, publish date,
service categories, a short summary, and the full announcement text.

Give it a **list of search queries** (e.g. `bedrock`, `lambda`, `s3`) and it
searches each one, paginates the full **20,000+ announcement archive**, merges and
de-duplicates the results. Leave the query list empty to pull the latest
announcements across all of AWS.

### What you get (output fields)

| Field | Description |
|---|---|
| `id` | Stable announcement id (e.g. `launch-4sci4vbcw9jrgasxc68k6e`). |
| `headline` | The announcement title. |
| `url` | Canonical link to the full announcement on aws.amazon.com. |
| `postDateTime` | Publish timestamp (ISO 8601, UTC). |
| `dateCreated` / `dateUpdated` | When AWS first created / last edited the entry. |
| `categories` | Service / topic tags (e.g. `compute`, `analytics`) when present. |
| `summary` | First ~300 characters of the announcement body. |
| `bodyText` | Full announcement text, HTML stripped (optional - on by default). |
| `bodyHtml` | Original HTML body (optional - off by default). |
| `matchedQuery` | Which of your queries surfaced this row (`null` for the latest-feed pass). |
| `directoryId` | Source feed id (`whats-new-v2`). |

### Input

| Field | Type | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| `queries` | array of strings | `[]` | Keywords to search. Empty = latest feed across all AWS. |
| `maxResultsPerQuery` | integer | `100` | Max announcements per query (paginates automatically; up to 5000). |
| `sortOrder` | `desc` / `asc` | `desc` | Newest first or oldest first, by publish date. |
| `dateFrom` | string | - | Only announcements published on/after this ISO date (YYYY-MM-DD). |
| `dateTo` | string | - | Only announcements published on/before this ISO date. |
| `locale` | string | `en_US` | Content locale (e.g. `ja_JP`, `de_DE`, `fr_FR`). |
| `includeBodyText` | boolean | `true` | Include the full plain-text body. |
| `includeBodyHtml` | boolean | `false` | Also include the raw HTML body. |

#### Example input

```json
{
  "queries": ["bedrock", "lambda"],
  "maxResultsPerQuery": 25,
  "sortOrder": "desc",
  "includeBodyText": true,
  "includeBodyHtml": false
}
```

#### Example output (one row)

```json
{
  "id": "launch-4sci4vbcw9jrgasxc68k6e",
  "headline": "OpenAI GPT-5.4 and GPT-5.5 models now available in US East (N. Virginia) on Amazon Bedrock",
  "url": "https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/06/openai-gpt-us-east-virginia-amazon/",
  "postDateTime": "2026-06-11T00:12:00Z",
  "dateCreated": "2026-06-11T00:13:22+0000",
  "dateUpdated": "2026-06-11T01:17:23+0000",
  "categories": [],
  "summary": "Today, AWS announces the expanded availability of OpenAI's GPT-5.4 and GPT-5.5 models, which are now available in the US East (N. Virginia) Region on Amazon Bedrock...",
  "matchedQuery": "bedrock",
  "directoryId": "whats-new-v2",
  "bodyText": "Today, AWS announces the expanded availability of OpenAI's GPT-5.4 and GPT-5.5 models..."
}
```

### Use cases

- **Competitive & market intelligence** - track when AWS ships features in a space you
  care about (AI/ML, databases, security) and build a dated timeline.
- **Cloud consultancies & DevRel** - monitor launches by service or keyword to brief
  clients, write newsletters, or trigger internal alerts.
- **Region / availability tracking** - watch for "now available in <region>"
  announcements to plan migrations and data-residency decisions.
- **Research datasets** - pull the full historical archive (20k+ rows) for trend
  analysis on AWS's release cadence by topic and date.

### FAQ

**Where does the data come from?** The public AWS What's New JSON feed (the same
endpoint the AWS website uses). No credentials are needed.

**How many results can I get?** The archive holds 20,000+ announcements. Set
`maxResultsPerQuery` as high as you need (up to 5000 per query) and the actor
paginates for you.

**How do I get the whole archive instead of a keyword search?** Leave `queries`
empty and raise `maxResultsPerQuery`; optionally set `dateFrom` to bound the window.

**Why are some `categories` empty?** AWS doesn't tag every announcement. The field is
best-effort and populated whenever the feed provides tags.

**How is it billed?** Pay per result - you're charged once per announcement returned.

# Actor input Schema

## `queries` (type: `array`):

List of keywords or phrases to search AWS What's New (e.g. \["bedrock", "lambda", "s3 express"]). Each query is searched separately and the results are merged and de-duplicated. Leave this empty to pull the latest announcements across all of AWS.

## `maxResultsPerQuery` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of announcements to return for each query. The scraper paginates the archive automatically (the full archive holds 20,000+ announcements), so set this as high as you need.

## `sortOrder` (type: `string`):

Return newest announcements first, or oldest first.

## `dateFrom` (type: `string`):

Optional ISO date (YYYY-MM-DD). Only return announcements published on or after this date.

## `dateTo` (type: `string`):

Optional ISO date (YYYY-MM-DD). Only return announcements published on or before this date.

## `locale` (type: `string`):

Content locale to fetch (default en_US). Other examples: ja_JP, de_DE, fr_FR, es_ES, ko_KR.

## `includeBodyText` (type: `boolean`):

Include the full announcement body as clean plain text (HTML stripped). Turn this off for a lighter dataset that only keeps the headline and metadata.

## `includeBodyHtml` (type: `boolean`):

Also include the original HTML of the announcement body. Off by default; most users only need the plain text.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "queries": [
    "bedrock",
    "lambda"
  ],
  "maxResultsPerQuery": 100,
  "sortOrder": "desc",
  "locale": "en_US",
  "includeBodyText": true,
  "includeBodyHtml": false
}
```

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "queries": [
        "bedrock",
        "lambda"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("scrapeworks/aws-whats-new").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = { "queries": [
        "bedrock",
        "lambda",
    ] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("scrapeworks/aws-whats-new").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "queries": [
    "bedrock",
    "lambda"
  ]
}' |
apify call scrapeworks/aws-whats-new --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,scrapeworks/aws-whats-new"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/FkKPkkIs6Luq3iKJN/builds/UGuWux6We2v6Pvz97/openapi.json