AWS News Weekly

Weekly Summaries of all AWS News and Releases

AWS News May 04 - May 10 05/11/2026

AWS News May 04 - May 10 This week: ElastiCache adds built-in full-text and vector search with Valkey 9, SageMaker AI introduces agentic model customization that cuts deployment from months to days, and Bedrock AgentCore launches payment capabilities for autonomous AI agents. Plus major IAM quota increases, new M8 and R8 EC2 instances, and the AWS MCP Server goes GA. Compute EC2 I8ge: 60% better compute, 55% better storage/TB, 120TB NVMe, 60% lower IO latency EC2 R8idn/R8idb: 43% better compute/vCPU, 600Gbps network, 300Gbps EBS EC2 M8idn/M8idb: 43% better compute/vCPU, 600Gbps network, 300Gbps EBS RDS SQL Server: M8i/R8i (15% better price-perf), M8a/R8a (70% higher throughput) AI/ML SageMaker AI: Agentic model customization - months to days with coding agents Agent Toolkit: 40+ skills, managed MCP server with IAM guardrails (GA) AWS MCP Server: GA - any AWS API, sandboxed Python, IAM/CloudTrail integration Bedrock AgentCore: Autonomous payments (preview), file system mounts, memory metadata filtering Analytics QuickSight: S3 table buckets direct connect, Dataset Q&A text-to-SQL, NL dashboard generation ElastiCache Valkey 9: Full-text/vector hybrid search, 40% higher throughput Entity Resolution: Incremental ML matching - 95% faster (1M records/hour vs 2 days) OpenSearch: VPC egress for private connections, unused index insights Storage & Database Aurora D-sequel: PostgreSQL JSON type with compression RDS SQL Server: Readable replicas on multi-volume instances (256TiB) Networking VPC Lattice: Private domain-name targets via in-VPC DNS resolution Site-to-Site VPN: In-place bandwidth tier changes Route 53 Resolver: IPv6 DNS64 synthesis, dynamic region management Security & Identity IAM: Doubled quotas - 10K roles/policies/profiles, 700 OIDC providers Payment Cryptography: Cross-account key sharing JDBC Wrapper: Column-level KMS encryption plugin Operations EventBridge: PutEvents now in CloudTrail CloudWatch: Tag-based log group queries, mobile alarm investigation with AI Backup for EKS: 10x faster cluster backups Developer Tools SAM: WebSocket API support, BuildKit for container builds Neptune: One-click CloudShell connect AWS News Feed: For help with your AWS Infrastructure check out or email For detailed show notes check out /episode/index/show/a7d355dc-a62e-4287-8f52-d8bae514637d/id/41244985

AWS News Apr 20 - Apr 26 04/27/2026

AWS News Apr 20 - Apr 26 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 Zone Transform: Automates Control Tower/Organizations/IAM setup, exports as CFN/CDK/LZA Contact Center Connect: Pass customer context into calls for instant recognition Connect Outbound: Hourly segment refresh, priority dialing by 10 attributes Connect: Agentic voice AI expands to 10 locales Connect: 8 new AI agent metrics (goal success, faithfulness, tool accuracy) Storage S3 Express One Zone: S3 Inventory support for directory buckets S3: 10 checksum algorithms added, auto-validates on upload Streaming & Kafka MSK Replicator: Enhanced logs, bidirectional sync, external Kafka→Express Observability CloudWatch Logs Insights: JOIN and sub-query across log groups CloudWatch Pipelines: Natural language log processor config Containers & Kubernetes EKS: 7 new IAM condition keys (private endpoints, KMS, version, deletion) EKS Hybrid Nodes: Gateway automates VPC-to-pod networking Database DocumentDB: In-place upgrade v5→v8, 7x faster queries, 5x compression Aurora Serverless: 30% faster, smarter scaling, scales to zero Compute & Lambda Lambda Durable Execution SDK: GA - checkpointing, pause up to 1 year Lambda: Mount S3 buckets as file systems via S3 Files EC2: Hide managed service resources from console/API IoT & Edge IoT Greengrass 2.17: Non-root Linux, nucleus lite (36→4MB), TPM 2.0 VMware & Windows Elastic VMware Service: Includes Windows Server licensing Backup & Governance Backup Policies: Direct targeting for Redshift Serverless, Aurora DSQL Location & Address Location Service: Bulk address validation (US/CA/AU/UK) with geocoding AWS News Feed: For help with your AWS Infrastructure check out or email For detailed show notes check out /episode/index/show/a7d355dc-a62e-4287-8f52-d8bae514637d/id/41027920

AWS News Apr 13 - Apr 19 04/20/2026

AWS News Apr 13 - Apr 19 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 plane Compute EC2 C8in/C8ib: GA - 6th-gen Intel, 600Gbps network (C8in), 300Gbps EBS (C8ib), 43% faster than C6in EC2 C8gn/M8gn/R8gn: 48xlarge/metal now 120Gbps EBS, 480K IOPS (2x previous) Storage FSx: Cross-region backup copy now supports opt-in regions ECR Pull Through Cache: Auto-syncs OCI referrers (signatures, SBOMs, attestations) Analytics Redshift: Top-K query optimization via min/max block skipping, no config needed OpenSearch Serverless: Derived Source reduces storage by reconstructing _source on-the-fly CloudWatch Logs Insights: Parameterized saved queries, up to 20 params, chainable AI/ML SageMaker JumpStart: 3 models - Nemotron 120B, Qwen 3.5 9B/27B SageMaker JumpStart: Optimized deployments - pick cost/throughput/latency targets, 30+ models SageMaker HyperPod: Multi-instance-type groups with priority fallback Deadline Cloud: AI troubleshooting for render failures (Maya, Blender, Houdini, Nuke) Database Aurora dsql: PHP connector with IAM token gen, connection pooling, retry logic Security Secrets Manager: Hybrid post-quantum TLS (ML-KEM) against harvest-now attacks Observtic CloudWatch: Multi-region telemetry audit/enablement, org-wide rules Managed Grafana: v12.4 - drilldown apps, CloudWatch PPL/SQL, Scenes engine Enterprise Apps Q Business: Google Drive ACL enforcement with real-time permission checks QuickSight: Sheet tooltips for hover context; multi-account login (up to 5) Amazon Q: 5 simultaneous account sessions in browser AWS News Feed: For help with your AWS Infrastructure check out or email For detailed show notes check out /episode/index/show/a7d355dc-a62e-4287-8f52-d8bae514637d/id/40932665

AWS News Apr 06 - Apr 12 04/13/2026

AWS News Apr 06 - Apr 12 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 Bedrock: Claude Mythos Preview (gated); IAM user/role cost tracking Bedrock AgentCore Browser: OS-level automation (mouse, keyboard, system dialogs) Cost Explorer: Natural language queries via Amazon Q SageMaker Studio: Serverless Apache Airflow workflows; notebook import/export Compute Lambda: Response streaming now in all commercial regions (200MB payloads) EKS: Warm pools for managed node groups EC2 Capacity Manager: Tag-based metric grouping (5 custom keys) Database RDS Blue/Green: Proxy integration for faster switchover RDS Oracle: M8i/R8i instances (15% better price-perf); Oracle Management Agent 24.1 RDS SQL Server: Latest CU/security patches (2 CVEs) Aurora PostgreSQL: Versions 17.9, 16.13, 15.17, 14.22 OpenSearch Serverless: Zstandard compression (32% smaller indexes) OpenSearch: Graviton4 i8ge instances (60% better compute); unified observability Networking & Security ACM: Search certificates by domain/ARN/status Transfer Family: IPv6 support for SFTP/AS2 connectors Route 53 GovCloud: DNS delegation for private hosted zones Private CA: Custom RAM permissions for cross-account sharing Developer Tools Smithy-Java GA: Type-safe clients, Java 21 virtual threads Greengrass SDK: C/C++/Rust support (<0.5MB vs 30MB) Verified Permissions: Human-readable policy store aliases End User Computing WorkSpaces: Unique DNS per PrivateLink endpoint; AI-powered Advisor Other Braket: Rigetti 108-qubit processor IVS: Redundant ingest with failover Backup: FSx support in 5 new regions CloudWatch Pipelines: Conditional processing, keep-original for compliance AWS News Feed: For help with your AWS Infrastructure check out or email For detailed show notes check out /episode/index/show/a7d355dc-a62e-4287-8f52-d8bae514637d/id/40823860

AWS News Mar 30 - Apr 05 04/06/2026

AWS News Mar 30 - Apr 05 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 containers, reduces costs vs EBS Lightsail: Compute-optimized bundles up to 72 vCPUs for batch/ML/gaming Database & Storage S3 Vectors: Expands to 31 regions, 2B vectors/index, 100ms latency Aurora DSQL: Official .NET and Rust connectors with IAM auth RDS Oracle on Outposts: Fully managed on-prem with Multi-AZ across racks Oracle Database@AWS: Sub-millisecond latency networking for Exadata migrations AI/ML Amazon Security Agent GA: Autonomous pen testing across AWS/Azure/GCP/on-prem DevOps Agent GA: Resolves incidents, learns apps, cuts MTTR to minutes Bedrock AgentCore Evaluations: 13 built-in evaluators, CI/CD integration Bedrock Guardrails: Cross-account safeguards from central management Transform Custom GA: Codebase analysis for 1M+ LOC, 7 managed transformations OpenSearch: Agentic AI for log analytics, natural language queries Networking Direct Connect: CloudWatch BGP metrics, CloudFormation support, 100Gbps in NZ CloudFront: BYOIP IPv6 via IPAM, SHA-256 signed URLs Observability CloudWatch: Native OTLP metrics, Query Studio with PromQL, auto-enable logging CloudWatch Logs: Lookup command for enrichment, Security Hub CSPM ingestion Container Insights: OTel metrics for EKS, 150 labels, GPU/Trainium detection Security & Compliance Private CA: CloudWatch utilization metrics Sustainability Console: Carbon emissions data without billing permissions Messaging End User Messaging: RCS for Business with SMS fallback End User Messaging Notify: OTP in minutes, 200+ countries Service Lifecycle Maintenance mode Apr 2026: App Runner, Audit Manager, CloudTrail Lake, IoT FleetWise Sunset planned: RDS Custom for Oracle, WorkMail, WorkSpaces Thin Client AWS News Feed: For help with your AWS Infrastructure check out or email For detailed show notes check out /episode/index/show/a7d355dc-a62e-4287-8f52-d8bae514637d/id/40741890

AWS News Mar 23 - Mar 29 03/30/2026

AWS News Mar 23 - Mar 29 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: FIPS compliance on Graviton/GPU in GovCloud AI/ML Bedrock AgentCore: Managed session storage, Chrome policies, custom CA certs Bedrock: Palmyra Vision 7B model (document/chart analysis) SageMaker HyperPod: Continuous provisioning for Slurm clusters SageMaker: RLHF fine-tuning for 12 models (Qwen, DeepSeek, Llama) SageMaker Studio: Kiro/Cursor IDE support via AWS Toolkit SageMaker Batch: Quota management with job preemption Servertic/Step Functions Step Functions: 28 new services, 1100 API actions, Bedrock AgentCore integration Lambda Durable: Idempotent invocations from workflows Database Aurora PostgreSQL: Free Tier ($100 credits), express config (seconds to query) Aurora DSQL: Ruby pg gem connector with auto IAM tokens Storage & Data HealthOmics: Batch runs up to 100K workflows per request HealthImaging: Study/series-level IAM access control S3 Vectors: Automated ingestion via Step Functions Analytics Amazon Q: London, Frankfurt, Tokyo regions (data sovereignty) CloudWatch Logs IA: Data protection, OpenSearch PPL/SQL queries Timestream InfluxDB: CloudWatch metrics integration Networking & Security Route 53 Profiles: Granular IAM per resource type Firewall Manager: Asia Pacific New Zealand region Transfer Family: Async MDN for AS2 messaging Developer Tools ParallelCluster 3.15: P6b instances, Slurm 25.11 Storage Gateway Terraform: AL2023, IMDSv2 default AppConfig: User-targeted gradual rollouts Agent Plugin: Serverless guidance for Kiro/Claude/Cursor AWS News Feed: For help with your AWS Infrastructure check out or email For detailed show notes check out /episode/index/show/a7d355dc-a62e-4287-8f52-d8bae514637d/id/40664225

AWS News Mar 16 - Mar 22 03/23/2026

AWS News Mar 16 - Mar 22 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 adapts tone/pacing to customer sentiment in real-time Data & Analytics SimpleDB: Export to S3 in JSON, cross-region/account, free tool Neptune: Query S3 directly from openCypher without loading Timestream InfluxDB 3: Clusters up to 15 nodes, dynamic scaling Glue Data Catalog: IAM auth for S3 Tables and Iceberg views Redshift: 7x faster first-run queries, federated IAM Identity Center multi-region OpenSearch 3.5: Persistent memory for agents, MCP integration, LLM-powered tuning Compute & Containers SageMaker HyperPod: Borrow idle GPU capacity beyond quotas SageMaker Training Plans: Extend GPU reservations 1-14 days Lambda: AZ discovery via metadata endpoint for zone-aware routing EC2 Fleet: Target interruptible Capacity Reservations in templates EKS Provisioned: 99.99% SLA, new 8XL tier doubles 4XL capacity ECR: Chainguard pull-through cache support AI/ML & Bedrock Bedrock AgentCore: Shell commands in sessions, WebRTC streaming Bedrock Models: NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super, GLM 5, Minimax M2.5 Partner Central: Bedrock agents for co-selling automation NVIDIA NIXL: EFA support for disaggregated LLM inference Neuron DRA: K8s-native scheduling for Trainium Monitoring & Security CloudWatch Logs: HTTP ingestion with bearer tokens, 4 formats CloudWatch: Org-wide EC2 detailed monitoring rules Config: 75 new managed rules Inspector: Agentless Windows CVE scanning, consolidated KB findings Security Agent: PDF pentest reports with filtering Database & Storage RDS SQL Server Dev: Additional volumes (256 TiB), Resource Governor RDS Custom SQL Server: View/schedule OS updates DataSync: Secrets Manager for all location types AWS News Feed: For help with your AWS Infrastructure check out or email For detailed show notes check out /episode/index/show/a7d355dc-a62e-4287-8f52-d8bae514637d/id/40583945

AWS News Mar 09 - Mar 15 03/16/2026

AWS News Mar 09 - Mar 15 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 Backup: Logically air-gapped vaults for EKS clusters Network Firewall: Now in AWS European Sovereign Cloud Firewall Manager: Expands to Asia Pacific New Zealand AI & ML Bedrock: TimeToFirstToken + EstimatedTPMQuotaUsage metrics Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Stateful MCP servers in isolated microVMs Bedrock AgentCore Memory: Kinesis streaming for memory changes Neptune: Native spatial data support, 11 ISO-standard functions Analytics & Data CloudWatch Logs Insights: 100 concurrent queries (was 30) OpenSearch: Cross-account queries from single UI OpenSearch: In-place scaling beyond 3TB without blue-green Glue zero-ETL: Configurable CDC intervals (15min-6days) for DynamoDB S3: Buckets in reserved namespace, predictable naming Networking Route 53 Global Resolver: GA, anycast DNS with threat filtering Compute & Containers Lambda Managed Instances: Rust support MSK: Graviton3 M7g in Cape Town, 24% cost savings Contact Center Connect: Email analytics with PII redaction Connect: Natural language queries across 150+ metrics Connect: 40M product catalog items, 14% better accuracy Connect: Case data in analytics data lake Connect: Multi-sender email addresses per queue Connect: In-platform agent coaching workflows Developer Tools Builder ID: GitHub and Amazon account sign-in CDK Mixins: Composable abstractions with .with() syntax SAM Kiro Power: AI-assisted serverless development Elastic Beanstalk: Real-time deployment logs LZA MCP Server: Natural language infrastructure management SageMaker Studio: 1-second data preview, browser-based ETL AWS News Feed: For help with your AWS Infrastructure check out or email For detailed show notes check out /episode/index/show/a7d355dc-a62e-4287-8f52-d8bae514637d/id/40494840

AWS News Mar 02 - Mar 08 03/09/2026

AWS News Mar 02 - Mar 08 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 permissions preserved on snapshot restore Database Savings Plans: Now cover OpenSearch + Neptune Analytics (up to 35% off) OpenSearch: Capacity Optimized blue/green deployments; O R2/O M2 instances in GovCloud OpenSearch Ingestion: Single endpoint for all 3 OpenTelemetry signals; Prometheus sink support SageMaker Unified Studio: Glue 5.1 (Spark 3.5.6, Iceberg 1.10); catalog sync with Atlan/Collibra/Alation; Kiro IDE remote connections; light mode AI & ML Bedrock AgentCore Policy: GA - centralized agent-tool access control via natural language → Cedar HealthLake: AI agent converts CCDA → FHIR R4 in days (preview) Connect Health: 5 healthcare AI agents GA (verification, scheduling, documentation, coding) Kiro: Lambda durable functions power for long-running workflow guidance Elastic Beanstalk: AI-powered health diagnostics via Bedrock Compute & Infrastructure EC2 I8ge: Graviton4, 60% better compute, 55% better storage perf vs I4g (EU) Batch: Configurable instance idle time (20min–1 week) SageMaker HyperPod: Built-in Grafana observability for Nova Forge training GameLift: Built-in DDoS protection with relay network (no extra cost) Security & Management Config: 30 new resource types (Bedrock AgentCore, Cognito, GameLift, DataBrew) IAM: In-service role creation panel (EC2, Lambda, EKS, ECS, Glue) Multi-party approval: Test approval runs to validate approver teams EventBridge Scheduler: 5K RPS default for CreateSchedule (11 regions) Developer Tools Lightsail: OpenClaw self-hosted AI assistant with Bedrock backend AWS News Feed: For help with your AWS Infrastructure check out or email For detailed show notes check out /episode/index/show/a7d355dc-a62e-4287-8f52-d8bae514637d/id/40363610

AWS News Feb 23 - Mar 01 03/02/2026

AWS News Feb 23 - Mar 01 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 inference supports Converse API for model-agnostic prompts Bedrock Mantle: OpenAI-compatible Projects API for isolated team environments Elemental Inference: AI-powered landscape-to-vertical video conversion in real-time WAF: AI activity dashboard, 650+ bot/agent detection catalog Compute & Instances EC2 M8gn/M8gb metal: 30% better compute vs Graviton3, up to 600Gbps network EC2 I8g metal: 60% better compute, 65% better storage perf, 50% lower latency EC2 M8i/M8i-flex: 15% better price-perf, 30% faster PostgreSQL, 60% faster NGINX Database Aurora DSQL: Browser playground, Tortoise/Flyway/Prisma integrations, SQLTools/DBeaver drivers Redshift Serverless: 3-year reservations, up to 45% cost savings RDS PostgreSQL: Minor versions 18.3, 17.9, 16.13, 15.17, 14.22 CloudWatch Database Insights: Lock contention visualization for PostgreSQL Storage & Data S3: Access logs now include source region MediaConvert: Free Probe API for metadata analysis without processing Compute Optimizer: Auto-tags EBS snapshots from deleted volumes Developer Tools Q Developer: Visual artifacts (tables, charts) in console Kiro: IAM Policy Autopilot power, AWS Observability power (4 MCP servers) Location Service: AI agent context for Kiro/Claude Code/Cursor EKS Node Monitoring Agent: Now open source on GitHub Operations & Security Trusted Advisor: Enhanced NAT Gateway detection via Compute Optimizer Security Hub Extended: GA, pay-as-you-go partner security solutions Cognito: Client secret rotation, custom secrets, zero-downtime transitions Network Firewall: Real-time EventBridge notifications VPC pen testing: Cross-account testing via RAM AWS News Feed: For help with your AWS Infrastructure check out or email For detailed show notes check out /episode/index/show/a7d355dc-a62e-4287-8f52-d8bae514637d/id/40278045

AWS News Feb 16 - Feb 22 02/23/2026

AWS News Feb 09 - Feb 15 02/16/2026

AWS News Feb 09 - Feb 15 This week: Bedrock adds six open-weight models through Project Mantle with higher quotas and OpenAI API compatibility, CloudWatch Alarm Mute Rules let you silence notifications during maintenance without losing visibility, and MSK now manages Kafka topics directly through AWS APIs. Plus new EC2 M8azn instances hit 5GHz, Aurora Global Database automates cross-region upgrades, and Lake Formation scales to hundreds of thousands of shared tables. Compute EC2 M8azn: 5GHz (highest cloud frequency), 2x M5zn performance EC2 C8id/M8id/R8id: 43% better perf, 3x memory bandwidth, flex network/EBS Outposts: C8i/M8i/R8i support, 20% better perf, same power AI/ML Bedrock: 6 open-weight models (DeepSeek V3.2, Kimi K2.5, GLM 4.7, MiniMax 2.1) Bedrock Project Mantle: Distributed inference, OpenAI API compatible, higher quotas Bedrock GovCloud: 25x higher Claude Sonnet 4.5 quotas (5M tokens/min) SageMaker HyperPod: Console node management, one-click SSM sessions Database Aurora Global DB: Auto minor upgrades across all regions, single action Aurora DSQL: Identity columns and sequences for auto-increment IDs RDS/Aurora: Configure backup settings during snapshot restore RDS PostgreSQL: 5 new versions, pg_stat_monitor extension OpenSearch Serverless: Collection Groups, shared compute across KMS keys Analytics Athena: 1-min capacity reservations, 4 DPU minimum, up to 95% savings Lake Formation: 100K+ tables cross-account sharing via wildcards S3 Tables: Partition/sort order in CreateTable API MSK: Topic management via AWS APIs/console, no Kafka client needed MSK Express: Free broker logs Operations CloudWatch Alarm Mute: Silence during maintenance, auto-trigger on expiry EKS Auto Mode: Enhanced logging to CloudWatch/S3/Firehose Elastic Beanstalk: GitHub Actions integration, OIDC auth Backup: Direct Aurora/Neptune/DocDB copies to air-gapped vaults Contact Center Connect: Audio enhancement (voice isolation/noise suppression) Connect: Auto-accept per channel, ACW timeouts per channel Connect: AI Task overviews, in-app notifications Other Data Transfer Terminal: 6 new cities (Seattle, Phoenix, London, Paris, Sydney, Tokyo) Payment Cryptography: Cartes Bancaires approved Resource Control Policies: DynamoDB support AWS News Feed: For help with your AWS Infrastructure check out or email For detailed show notes check out /episode/index/show/a7d355dc-a62e-4287-8f52-d8bae514637d/id/40121900

AWS News Feb 02 - Feb 08 02/09/2026

AWS News Feb 02 - Feb 08 This week: DynamoDB global tables now replicate across multiple AWS accounts for stronger fault isolation, IAM Identity Center adds multi-region replication for resilient single sign-on, and new EC2 C8id, M8id, and R8id instances deliver up to 43% higher performance. Plus CloudFront mutual TLS for origins, Connect voice testing APIs, and cost reductions for Network Firewall. Compute EC2 C8id/M8id/R8id: GA, 43% faster, 3x memory bandwidth vs gen6 Lightsail: Memory-optimized bundles up to 512GB RAM Containers & Orchesttic ECS: Linear/canary deployments for NLB (TCP/UDP workloads) EKS: Pod Identity integration for add-ons in GovCloud Batch: Unmanaged compute on EKS; array job status in ListJobs API Database DynamoDB: Global tables replicate across accounts (not just regions) Aurora DSQL: Indexes on NUMERIC columns RDS MySQL: 8.0.45 and 8.4.8 support RDS Console: Redesigned with code snippets, CloudShell access Security & Identity IAM Identity Center: Multi-region replication for SSO resilience STS: Validates OIDC claims from Google, GitHub, CircleCI, OCI Multi-party approval: OTP verification required for votes CloudFront: Mutual TLS for origin authentication Security Groups: Single tab shows all dependent resources AI/ML SageMaker JumpStart: 4 NVIDIA NIMs (ProteinMPNN, Cosmos), DeepSeek OCR, MiniMax M2.1, Qwen3 VL, Cartesia Sonic 3 TTS EC2 Capacity Blocks: Cross-account sharing via RAM Analytics Redshift: Autonomics work across multi-cluster environments Glue: Native REST API connector QuickSight: Fix ambiguous map locations in-visual Networking Network Firewall: NAT Gateway discounts expanded; TLS inspection charges removed End User & Developer WorkSpaces: 12 new G6 graphics bundles WorkSpaces Secure Browser: Custom domain support Builder ID: Apple Account sign-in Console: Account name in nav bar Other HealthImaging: JPEG XL lossy compression Connect: Voice testing APIs; agent evaluation appeals Config: 30 new resource types Bedrock AgentCore Browser: Reusable browser profiles AWS News Feed: For help with your AWS Infrastructure check out or email For detailed show notes check out /episode/index/show/a7d355dc-a62e-4287-8f52-d8bae514637d/id/40040960

AWS News Jan 26 - Feb 01 02/02/2026

AWS News Jan 26 - Feb 01 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 logs/metrics for MSK Storage & Database S3: Change encryption type without moving data via Update Object Encryption API EventBridge: 1MB event payloads (4x increase) DynamoDB: Global tables integrate with Fault Injection Service for resilience testing RDS: R6id/R6gd instances in more regions; Graviton up to 40% better perf RDS Oracle: Cross-region replicas with multi-volume support, up to 256 TiB Keyspaces: Table pre-warming for traffic spikes AI & ML Bedrock: 1-hour prompt cache TTL for Claude (was 5 min) Bedrock: Server-side custom tools via Responses API, Lambda integration SageMaker Unified Studio: PrivateLink support for private data traffic Security & Networking Network Firewall: GenAI traffic filtering with web categories IAM Identity Center: IPv6 dual-stack endpoints Cognito: Lambda triggers to transform federated user attributes Lightsail: IMDSv2 enforced by default on Node.js/LAMP/Ruby blueprints Management & Developer Tools Deployment Agent SOPs: Natural language to production via MCP Server Connect Cases: Tag-based access control Deadline Cloud: Edit job names/descriptions post-submission ECS: Container health status as CloudWatch metric End User & Partner WorkSpaces Personal: Advanced printer redirection (duplex, stapling, trays) WorkSpaces Core: Monthly flat-rate pricing option GameLift Streams: 6 new regions (EU, SA, India, Asia) Transfer Family: FSx for NetApp ONTAP support Partner Revenue Measurement: Track solution-driven consumption AWS News Feed: For help with your AWS Infrastructure check out or email For detailed show notes check out /episode/index/show/a7d355dc-a62e-4287-8f52-d8bae514637d/id/39960995

AWS News Jan 19 - Jan 25 01/26/2026

AWS News Jan 19 - Jan 25 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 deletion protection via IAM condition keys + group safeguards Database Aurora/RDS R8g: Graviton4, 40% better perf, 29% better price-perf RDS Blue/Green: Switchovers under 5s (2s with Advanced JDBC Driver) RDS Oracle: Bare metal for SE2 BYOL (25% cheaper), Multi-AZ replicas for multi-tenant RDS SQL Server: Differential/log restores directly on Multi-AZ Storage & Containers ECR: Cross-repo blob mounting reuses layers, faster pushes, lower storage Analytics & AI/ML QuickSight: Reader table customization; SPICE now 2TB, 64K string length SageMaker Unified Studio: Cross-region Glue/Redshift table subscriptions SageMaker HyperPod: CloudWatch log links for lifecycle debugging Bedrock AgentCore Browser: Custom Chrome extension support Bedrock Reserved: Claude Sonnet 4.5 in GovCloud Security & IAM Access Denied Errors: Now include specific policy ARN that blocked request Resource Control Policies: Support for Cognito and CloudWatch Logs Config: 13 new rules (Cognito MFA, EBS snapshot access, ECS non-root) Security Agent: GitHub Enterprise Cloud integration for AI code review Hybrid & Edge Outposts Gen2: 20 new countries, C7i/M7i/R7i with 40% better perf Elastic VMware Service: VCF/ESX version selection; multiple NSX Tier-0 Gateways Developer & Operations Corretto: Q1 security updates for JDK 8-25 Transfer Family Terraform: Web apps module with IAM Identity Center auth Instance Scheduler: Smarter orchestration, auto-retry alternate instance types EMR Serverless: Customer-managed KMS for local disk encryption Clean Rooms: Join/partition hints for query optimization MQ RabbitMQ: JMS support via topic exchange plugin AWS News Feed: For help with your AWS Infrastructure check out or email For detailed show notes check out /episode/index/show/a7d355dc-a62e-4287-8f52-d8bae514637d/id/39876040

AWS News Jan 12 - Jan 18 01/19/2026

AWS News Jan 12 - Jan 18 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 (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 AWS News Feed: For help with your AWS Infrastructure check out or email For detailed show notes check out /episode/index/show/a7d355dc-a62e-4287-8f52-d8bae514637d/id/39780945

AWS News Jan 05 - Jan 11 01/12/2026

AWS News Dec 29 - Jan 04 01/05/2026

AWS News Dec 22 - Dec 28 12/29/2025

AWS News Dec 22 - Dec 28 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 Mantle distributed inference SageMaker: MiniMax M2, 230B params (10B active), elite coding/agentic performance Compute & Containers ECS Service Connect: Envoy access logs for service mesh traffic, query string redaction, HTTP/gRPC/TCP Database & Analytics Redshift: Materialized views from multiple warehouses, build on shared views, auto-scale creation RDS MySQL 9.5: Innovation Release in preview environment, 60-day retention Storage & Migration Storage Gateway: Nutanix AHV hypervisor support joins VMware/Hyper-V/KVM Transform: Auto network conversion for hybrid migrations, VLAN-to-VPC mapping Media & Gaming GameLift Streams: Gen6 L4 GPUs (2x perf), 7 tiers, warm buffer autoscaling GameLift Streams: Real-time CPU/GPU/memory stats per session, termination diagnostics Deadline Cloud Monitor: Submit render jobs from desktop UI, no CLI needed Messaging & Communication Wickr: Admin APIs for user lifecycle, retention policies, security group automation End User Messaging SMS: GenAI registration reviewer (preview) for carrier submissions Kinesis Video Streams: IPv6 WebRTC via dual-stack endpoints Security & Identity Secrets Manager: Sort by name, last changed/accessed, creation date WorkSpaces Secure Browser: WebAuthn redirect for FIDO2/passkeys/biometrics End User Computing WorkSpaces Secure Browser: Custom branding, logos, ToS acknowledgment, WCAG 2.0 AA Research & Engineering Studio 2025.12: Tag propagation, optional domain join, default schedules Contact Center Connect: Auto evaluations now in Portuguese, French, Italian, German, Spanish Regional MSK Provisioned: Asia Pacific New Zealand, Standard + Express brokers AWS News Feed: For Expert Support with your AWS Infrastructure check out For detailed show notes check out /episode/index/show/a7d355dc-a62e-4287-8f52-d8bae514637d/id/39551715

AWS News Dec 15 - Dec 21 12/23/2025

AWS News Dec 15 - Dec 21 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 Instances: Now supports Spot (up to 90% discount) ECS Fargate: Weekly event windows for task retirement Containers & Kubernetes EKS: Cluster-wide network filters + DNS-based egress policies ECR: Auto-creates repos on push; Public now supports PrivateLink ACM for K8s: Full cert lifecycle automation via ACK controller Database Aurora PostgreSQL 18.1: Skip scan, parallel GIN builds (preview) Aurora PostgreSQL: 5 new versions, faster Blue/Green switchovers OpenSearch OI2: 9% higher indexing, multi-tier S3 storage with writes Timestream InfluxDB: Restart API for v2 and v3 Analytics & ML Redshift Serverless: Dual-stack IPv6 support QuickSight: Persistent memory across chats; browser extension runs Flows Bedrock Data Automation: Auto-optimizes blueprints from 10 examples SageMaker Studio: SOCI indexing cuts container startup 30-50% Networking Direct Connect: Vietnam location; FIS integration for BGP failover testing Route 53 Resolver: Detailed CloudWatch metrics (latency, errors) Security & Compliance Control Tower: 176 new Security Hub controls Artifact: Self-service access to historical compliance reports Security Incident Response: Slack integration (bidirectional sync) SES: Email validation API + Auto Validation for bounce reduction Cost & Management Cost Allocation Tags: Works with Organizations account tags Billing Dashboards: PDF/CSV export Payment Cryptography: Up to 63% price cut + tiered pricing Carbon Footprint: 21-day lag (was 3 months) Messaging & IoT MSK: Kafka 3.9 with KRaft (no ZooKeeper); Connect dual-stack IoT Core: HTTP batch actions; event-based log levels IoT Device Mgmt: Dynamic command payloads with validation AWS News Feed: For Expert Support with your AWS Infrastructure check out For detailed show notes check out /episode/index/show/a7d355dc-a62e-4287-8f52-d8bae514637d/id/39514790