AWS News Weekly

Weekly Summaries of all AWS News and Releases

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