AWS News Apr 20 - Apr 26
AWS News Weekly
This week: Lambda Durable Execution SDK brings year-long workflow checkpointing to Java developers, S3 adds ten checksum algorithms for data integrity, and CloudWatch Logs Insights now supports JOIN queries across log groups. Plus MSK Replicator gains external cluster migration, Aurora Serverless v4 delivers 30% better performance, and Bedrock AgentCore lets you prototype agents without orchestration code. Identity & Directory Managed Microsoft AD: Auto-upgraded to Windows 2016, adds LAPS support Managed Microsoft AD: Kerberos encryption audit logs to CloudWatch Migration & Landing...
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AWS News Apr 13 - Apr 19
AWS News Weekly
This week: AWS Interconnect goes multicloud with Google Cloud support and Azure coming in 2026, Secrets Manager adds post-quantum encryption to protect against future threats, and new C8in instances deliver 600 Gbps networking. Plus CloudWatch gets cross-region telemetry management and Aurora D-sequel launches a dedicated PHP connector. Networking Interconnect Last Mile: Branch/DC to cloud via Lumen, 1-100 Gbps dynamic scaling, MACsec default Interconnect Multicloud: GA - private links to GCP now, Azure/Oracle in 2026, free 500Mbps/region Elastic DR: IPv6 support for replication and control...
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AWS News Apr 06 - Apr 12
AWS News Weekly
This week: S3 Files transforms buckets into fully-featured file systems accessible from EC2, Lambda, and containers without data duplication. Lambda response streaming reaches all commercial regions for faster LLM apps, and Cost Explorer adds natural language queries powered by Amazon Q. Plus Bedrock's Claude Mythos Preview for cybersecurity and EKS warm pools for rapid scaling. Storage S3 Files: Mount buckets as file systems on EC2/Lambda/containers, EFS-backed low-latency S3: SSE-C disabled by default for new buckets; S3 Lifecycle: Auto-pauses expiration on failed replication objects AI/ML...
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AWS News Mar 30 - Apr 05
AWS News Weekly
This week: AWS announces lifecycle changes for several services including App Runner and Audit Manager entering maintenance mode, Amazon Security Agent brings autonomous penetration testing to GA, and DevOps Agent launches for automated incident resolution. Plus CloudWatch gets native OpenTelemetry support with PromQL querying, S3 Vectors expands to 31 regions, and Direct Connect adds CloudFormation support. Compute & Containers ECS Managed Daemons: Deploy security/observability agents independently, one per instance, runs before app tasks ECS Managed Instances: Instance store volumes for...
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AWS News Mar 23 - Mar 29
AWS News Weekly
This week: Aurora PostgreSQL joins the AWS Free Tier with express configuration for instant serverless setup, Lambda Managed Instances gets a major boost to 32GB memory and 16 vCPUs, and Step Functions adds 28 new service integrations including Bedrock AgentCore. Plus SageMaker HyperPod continuous provisioning, ParallelCluster P6B300 support, and Amazon Q launches in Tokyo, London, and Frankfurt regions. Compute Lambda: 32GB RAM/16 vCPUs, 4096 file descriptors (4x increase) EC2 I8ge: Graviton4, 120TB NVMe, 60% better compute vs I3en GameLift: EC2 5th-8th gen instances (Graviton, DDR5) ECS:...
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AWS News Mar 16 - Mar 22
AWS News Weekly
This week: Amazon Bedrock adds NVIDIA Nemotron, GLM 5, and Minimax M2.5 models for agentic AI workloads, while AgentCore Runtime gains shell command execution and WebRTC streaming. Amazon Redshift delivers up to 7x faster dashboard queries with new compilation optimization. Plus EKS Provisioned clusters get 99.99% SLA, Lambda functions can now discover their Availability Zone, and OpenSearch 3.5 brings persistent memory for AI agents. Connect & Contact Center Connect: Email forwarding to external addresses, 9 new TTS voices, 13 new locales, London for voice AI Connect Agents: Voice AI...
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AWS News Mar 09 - Mar 15
AWS News Weekly
This week: S3 introduces reserved namespaces eliminating the hunt for globally unique bucket names, Route 53 Global Resolver goes GA with anycast DNS and built-in threat filtering, and Bedrock AgentCore adds stateful MCP server support for complex multi-turn workflows. Plus CloudWatch Logs Insights triples concurrent query limits and Neptune gets native spatial data support. Security & Identity IAM Roles Anywhere: Post-quantum certificates (FIPS 204 ML-DSA) Private CA SCEP: PrivateLink support, no public internet needed WorkSpaces: Windows Server 2025 bundles with TPM 2.0, Secure Boot...
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AWS News Mar 02 - Mar 08
AWS News Weekly
This week: Amazon Connect Health launches five AI agents for healthcare workflows, Bedrock AgentCore Policy goes GA with natural language-to-Cedar policy conversion, and SageMaker Unified Studio adds Kiro IDE remote connections plus third-party catalog sync. Plus GameLift gets built-in DDoS protection, EventBridge Scheduler bumps default limits to 5K requests per second, and Database Savings Plans now cover OpenSearch and Neptune Analytics. Data & Analytics Redshift: COPY templates for reusable ingestion params; 9 new array functions for SUPER type Redshift Serverless: Datashare...
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AWS News Feb 23 - Mar 01
AWS News Weekly
This week: Graviton 4 bare-metal instances arrive with M8gn delivering 600 Gbps networking, Amazon Q Developer now generates visual charts and tables directly in the console, and WAF adds an AI activity dashboard tracking over 650 bots and agents. Plus Aurora DSQL gets a browser playground, Bedrock handles tool execution server-side, and EKS Node Monitoring Agent goes open source. AI & Machine Learning Bedrock: Automated Reasoning links rules to source docs; 99% hallucination detection Bedrock: Server-side tool execution via AgentCore Gateway, no client orchestration Bedrock: Batch...
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AWS News Feb 16 - Feb 22
AWS News Weekly
This week: EC2 enables nested virtualization on virtual instances for KVM and Hyper-V workloads, Aurora now encrypts all new clusters by default, and new HPC8a instances deliver 40% higher performance for compute-intensive workloads. Plus Bedrock adds reinforcement fine-tuning for open-weight models and ACM shortens certificate validity to 198 days. Compute EC2: Nested virtualization on virtual instances (KVM, Hyper-V) EC2 HPC8a: 40% faster, 25% better price-perf vs HPC7a, 192 cores Database Aurora: Encryption by default on new clusters (AWS-owned keys) Aurora MySQL 3.12: MySQL 8.0.44...
info_outlineThis week: Lambda adds dot NET ten as a managed runtime, ECS brings tmpfs mounts to Fargate for fast in-memory scratch storage, and RDS for SQL Server expands cross-region read replicas to sixteen new regions. Plus EC two Capacity Manager now tracks Spot interruption metrics, and Amazon Q gains integrations with Box, Canva, PagerDuty and more.
Compute
- EC2 Capacity Manager: Spot interruption metrics (running instances, interruption counts/rates)
- ECS: tmpfs mounts on Fargate/Managed Instances for in-memory scratch storage
- Lambda: .NET 10 managed runtime + container base image with LTS support
Networking
- Client VPN: Quickstart setup - 3 inputs to create endpoint (CIDR, cert, subnet)
Database
- DocumentDB: Now in Asia Pacific Jakarta region
- RDS SQL Server: Cross-region read replicas in 16 additional regions (up to 15 replicas)
- Lightsail: Larger DB bundles - 8 vCPUs, 32GB RAM, 960GB SSD
Messaging
- Amazon MQ RabbitMQ: External HTTP auth server support (v4.2+, M7g)
- Amazon MQ RabbitMQ: Mutual TLS certificate-based authentication
Analytics & ML
- EMR Serverless: Cost allocation tags per job run (not just application)
- MWAA: Apache Airflow 2.11 + Python 3.12 support
- Q: Third-party AI agents (Box, Canva, PagerDuty) + expanded actions library
Management
- AWS Config: 21 new resource types (EC2, SageMaker, S3 Tables)
Marketplace
- Seller Reporting: Payment collection status visibility (invoiced/collected/disbursed)
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