AWS News Jan 26 - Feb 01
AWS News Weekly
This week: EventBridge quadruples payload limits to 1MB, EKS adds Kubernetes 1.35 with in-place pod resource updates, and S3 lets you change encryption types without moving data. Plus Network Firewall gains AI traffic filtering, GameLift scales to zero, and new Deployment Agent SOPs take web apps from prototype to production with a single prompt. Compute & Containers EKS 1.35: In-place pod resource updates, local traffic distribution, image volumes for AI models GameLift Servers: Auto-scale to/from zero instances, eliminates idle costs Lambda: Enhanced Kafka observability with CloudWatch...
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AWS News Jan 19 - Jan 25
AWS News Weekly
This week: EC2 G7e instances bring NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs for 2.3x better AI inference, RDS Blue Green Deployments now complete switchovers in under 5 seconds, and QuickSight doubles SPICE capacity to 2TB. Plus Graviton 4 instances expand across Aurora and RDS, ECR adds cross-repo layer sharing, and Route 53 picks up .AI domains. Compute EC2 G7e: GA with NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell GPUs, 2.3x inference vs G6e EC2 M4 Max Mac: GA with M4 Max (16-core CPU, 40-core GPU), 25% faster builds EC2 C8gb/M8gb/R8gb: 48xlarge+metal sizes, 30% better than Graviton3, 300Gbps EBS Auto Scaling: Layered...
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AWS News Jan 12 - Jan 18
AWS News Weekly
This week: EC2 X8i instances deliver 43% higher performance with up to 6TB memory for demanding workloads, Lambda functions can now trigger from DynamoDB Streams across accounts, and EBS volumes support four modifications per day. Plus Inspector expands vulnerability scanning, Bedrock adds API keys in GovCloud, and second-gen Outposts racks gain new capabilities. Compute EC2 X8i: 43% faster, 1.5x memory (6TB max), custom Intel Xeon 6, SAP-certified Database RDS PostgreSQL: Extended Support versions for PG 11/12 with security fixes RDS SQL Server: Latest Microsoft security patches...
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AWS News Jan 05 - Jan 11
AWS News Weekly
This 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 ...
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AWS News Dec 29 - Jan 04
AWS News Weekly
This week: Amazon Connect gets powerful new filtering by custom business dimensions and nested JSON support for dynamic call flows. CloudWatch simplifies CloudTrail Lake imports for unified logging, while Clean Rooms adds detailed query metrics. Plus OpenSearch UI enhances encryption with customer managed keys. Search & Analytics OpenSearch UI: Customer-managed keys for metadata encryption, increased metadata size limits Contact Center Connect Dashboards: Filter metrics by custom business dimensions (product lines, divisions, segments) Connect Flows: Nested JSON objects, array looping...
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AWS News Dec 22 - Dec 28
AWS News Weekly
This week: NVIDIA Nemotron Nano arrives on Bedrock with 256k context and native tool calling, Neuron SDK adds Trainium 3 UltraServer support with open-source compiler tools, and GameLift Streams launches Gen 6 stream classes with up to 2x performance gains. Plus ECS Service Connect now captures Envoy access logs and Secrets Manager finally lets you sort secrets by name or date. AI & Machine Learning Neuron SDK 2.27: Trainium 3 UltraServer support, Neuron Explorer, open-source MLIR compiler, native PyTorch via TorchNeuron Bedrock: Nemotron 3 Nano 30B, 256k context, hybrid MoE, Project...
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AWS News Dec 15 - Dec 21
AWS News Weekly
This week: AWS slashes Payment Cryptography pricing by up to 63 percent, EKS adds cluster-wide network policies with DNS-based egress filtering, and Aurora PostgreSQL 18.1 hits preview with skip scan and parallel index builds. Plus new Graviton 4 M8gn instances deliver 600 Gbps networking, Certificate Manager automates Kubernetes certificate lifecycle, and Direct Connect expands to Vietnam. Compute EC2 M8gn/M8gb: Graviton4, 30% better perf, up to 600Gbps network EC2 AZ IDs: APIs accept physical zone IDs directly EC2 Auto Scaling: Sync Launch Instances API with instant feedback ECS Managed...
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AWS News Dec 08 - Dec 14
AWS News Weekly
This week: AWS launches Graviton4-powered C8gb instances with 30% better performance, Aurora DSQL enables instant cluster creation for rapid prototyping, and ElastiCache Serverless adds WATCH command support for reliable transactions. Plus DataSync Enhanced mode expands to on-premises transfers, ECS adds custom stop signals on Fargate, and Shield introduces multi-account security analysis. AWS News Feed: For Expert Support with your AWS Infrastructure check out For detailed show notes check out
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AWS News Dec 01 - Dec 07
AWS News Weekly
This week: AWS Transform launches agentic AI to automate VMware migrations and code modernization at scale, while Lambda introduces durable functions for reliable multi-step workflows. Amazon Bedrock expands with 18 new models including Nova two Omni for multimodal reasoning, S3 now supports 50TB objects, and new Graviton5-powered M9g instances deliver 25% better performance. AWS News Feed: For Expert Support with your AWS Infrastructure check out For detailed show notes check out
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AWS News Oct 13 - Oct 19
AWS News Weekly
This week: Amazon ElastiCache adds vector search for AI workloads, Bedrock AgentCore reaches GA with complete agentic platform capabilities, and AWS announces lifecycle changes for services entering maintenance mode. Plus CloudWatch gains generative AI observability, EBS introduces instant Volume Clones, and Claude Haiku 4.5 arrives with near-frontier performance at lower cost. AWS News Feed: For Expert Support with your AWS Infrastructure check out For detailed show notes check out
info_outlineThis week: EC2 X8i instances deliver 43% higher performance with up to 6TB memory for demanding workloads, Lambda functions can now trigger from DynamoDB Streams across accounts, and EBS volumes support four modifications per day. Plus Inspector expands vulnerability scanning, Bedrock adds API keys in GovCloud, and second-gen Outposts racks gain new capabilities.
Compute
- EC2 X8i: 43% faster, 1.5x memory (6TB max), custom Intel Xeon 6, SAP-certified
Database
- RDS PostgreSQL: Extended Support versions for PG 11/12 with security fixes
- RDS SQL Server: Latest Microsoft security patches (2016-2022)
- RDS Custom SQL Server: GDR updates for CVE-2025-59499
- Neptune: R7g/R8g Graviton instances expand regions, 16% cheaper than R6g, R8g 40% faster
Serverless
- Lambda: Cross-account DynamoDB Streams triggers via resource policies
Storage
- EBS: 4 modifications per 24hrs (up from 1), no detach needed
- S3 on Outposts: Now on 2nd-gen racks, 196TB-786TB tiers
AI/ML
- Bedrock: API keys in GovCloud, 12hr short-term or flexible long-term
- Bedrock Data Exports: Granular operation types in cost reports
- SageMaker HyperPod: Pre-creation quota validation with fix links
- Lex: Neural speech model for English, 3 voice detection sensitivity levels
Security
- Inspector: Gradle deps in Lambda/ECR, plus MySQL/MariaDB/PHP/Jenkins/Curl
- IPAM: Enforced IP policies for RDS and ALB allocations
Analytics
- Redshift Serverless: Dedicated query queues with per-queue monitoring rules
- Clean Rooms: Parameters in PySpark templates
Contact Center
- Connect: Screen recording status via EventBridge, visual calendar for hours overrides, scheduling metrics to data lake
- Connect Cases: CloudFormation support
Networking
- Outposts: 2nd-gen racks, 10 isolated local gateway routing domains, more region connections
- Q Transform: PrivateLink support
Developer
- Vercel v0: Aurora PostgreSQL/DSQL/DynamoDB integration, $100 credits
IoT
- IoT Device Management: Wi-Fi Simple Setup with QR codes
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