AWS News Weekly

Weekly Summaries of all AWS News and Releases

AWS News Aug 03 - Aug 09 08/10/2026

AWS News Aug 03 - Aug 09 This week: DynamoDB adds native vector search with single-digit millisecond latency, Amazon Bedrock brings OpenAI GPT models with million-token context windows, and Aurora Serverless now scales to 12 ACUs in under a second. Plus ECR supports 200GB image layers, Lambda gets 3Gbps bandwidth, and Bedrock AgentCore launches in GovCloud. Databases DynamoDB: Native vector search, single-digit ms latency, 99%+ recall, trillions of vectors Aurora Serverless: Scales to 12 ACUs in <1 second, up to 256 ACUs as demand grows ElastiCache: Graviton4 nodes—47% higher throughput, 43% lower P99 latency Neptune: Air-gapped backup vaults with immutable storage, cross-account/region copy AI/ML Bedrock: OpenAI GPT 5.6 models (Sol/Terra/Luna), 1M token context, built-in web search SageMaker AI: Full fine-tuning for 25+ models (Llama, Gemma, Qwen); G7 instances with Blackwell GPUs Bedrock AgentCore: Temporal policies, rate limiting, EC2 self-hosted option, GovCloud support ECR: 200GB image layers—embed LLMs in single layer Compute & Containers Lambda: 3Gbps bandwidth (non-VPC), 10K SQS pollers (5x increase) ECS: Fractional NVIDIA L4 GPUs (1/8th slices) for small inference GameLift: Shareable stream URLs, 21 new instance types Security Security Hub Extended: Supply chain security category (Chainguard, Socket) Network Firewall: Built-in explicit forward proxy mode WAF: Miggo + Salt Security managed rules for AI/API protection VPC IPAM: BGP route monitoring, automated RPKI/ROA management Analytics & Data Glue Catalog: Iceberg export to S3 Tables, semantic search with KMS QuickSight: Multi-dataset topics with runtime joins MSK: Free authorizer logs for Provisioned clusters OpenSearch: Network-restricted UI access via IAM conditions Developer Tools Transform: SQL Server→Aurora PostgreSQL conversion; GA for tech debt remediation Lambda Console: Kiro + Cursor IDE integration EMR: Interactive Spark sessions via Spark Connect Operations S3 Backup: Direct access via Access Points—no restore needed RDS: Storage initialization progress visibility; SQL Server audit logs to CloudWatch IAM Identity Center: One-click multi-Region setup; skip account access option WorkSpaces: Enhanced CloudWatch metrics (free) 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/42375325

AWS News Jul 27 - Aug 02 08/03/2026

AWS News Jul 27 - Aug 02 This week: AWS launches Amazon Interconnect for purpose-built multicloud connectivity with Oracle and Google Cloud. MSK Express brokers now deliver Kafka data directly to S3 and Iceberg tables, cutting costs up to 60 percent. Transit Gateway adds policy-based routing for traffic steering by source, destination, and protocol. Plus IAM Identity Center gets multi-region replication and Bedrock drops GPT 5.6 prices up to 80 percent. Database RDS SQL Server: Restore TDE-encrypted DBs directly to Multi-AZ instances Neptune: Tag-based IAM access control for cluster isolation S3 Tables: Iceberg V3 Variant type for schema-free JSON ingestion OpenSearch 3.7: 1-bit vector quantization, faster retrieval via doc values Directory Service: In-place Standard→Enterprise upgrade (5K→500K objects) Redshift RG: Graviton instances on trailing track, 2.4x faster at 30% lower cost Aurora DSQL: Multi-Region active-active clusters in more locations Compute & Containers EKS: Private OIDC via PrivateLink, no internet egress needed EKS Provisioned: HPA processing 40x faster for autoscaling objects EC2 Auto Scaling: Instance refresh as CloudFormation update policy Lambda: Java 8/11/17 on AL2023 (AL2 patched through June 2027) AI/ML Security Hub MCP: Claude Desktop integration for exposure findings Bedrock GovCloud: Grok 4.3, Gemma 4 (31B/26B/2B) models Bedrock: GPT 5.6 price cuts—Luna 80%, Terra 20% SageMaker Studio: Full Git version control across all editors Data & Analytics Glue DQ: Distribution Analyzer histograms, ML anomaly detection Glue REST API: VPC connections, filter pushdown, partitioning DataSync Enhanced: EFS, FSx Lustre, HDFS, Azure Blob, Hyper-V support MSK Express: Native S3 delivery + Iceberg tables, 60% cost reduction Redshift Data API: Long polling, ListSessions, batch auto-commit Networking Transit Gateway: Policy-Based Routing by source/dest IP, port, protocol Direct Connect: View BGP routes with AS path and community values Amazon Interconnect: Oracle Cloud GA, Google supported, Azure 2026 Security & Identity WAF: Pre-parse transforms, 10 new options including SHA-256 IAM Identity Center: Multi-region replication for built-in directory IAM Policy Simulator: Console integration, SCP testing, what-if scenarios Storage & Transfer EFS: Cross-account replication in GovCloud 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/42297510

AWS News Jul 20 - Jul 26 07/27/2026

AWS News Jul 20 - Jul 26 This week: RDS adds SQL Server 2025 with native AI integration for calling Bedrock directly from T-SQL, Lambda durable functions hit GA for .NET with year-long pause support, and CloudWatch now tracks AI coding agent metrics across your org. Plus EKS Auto Mode gains EFA support, Secrets Manager events flow directly to EventBridge, and Claude Opus 5 arrives on Bedrock. Compute EC2 I8ge: Graviton4, 60% better compute, 55% better storage I/O, 60% lower latency EKS Auto Mode/Karpenter: EFA support, placement groups for node pools Lambda Durable Functions: GA for .NET, pause up to 1 year, KMS CMK encryption ECS Action Logs: Timestamped deployment visibility, Amazon Q root cause analysis ECS Service Connect: Zone-aware routing, reduces cross-AZ costs (default for new) AI/ML Claude Opus 5: Available on Bedrock, hours-long autonomous agents Claude Sonnet 5: Now in GovCloud on Bedrock SageMaker G7: RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell, 4.6x inference vs G6 SageMaker G7e: 8 RTX PRO 6000 GPUs, 768GB memory, 70B params single-node SageMaker G6: Now in GovCloud with L4 GPUs Bedrock AgentCore: Unified telemetry to single CloudWatch log group Data Exports: Standardized Bedrock metadata (model, pricing, inference type) Kiro: Opus 4.8 + Sonnet 5 in GovCloud with usage dashboards aws-bench: Open-source AI agent benchmark for cloud tasks Database RDS SQL Server 2025: Native AI/REST from T-SQL, Standard up to 32 cores, vector type RDS MySQL 9.7: Preview environment available Storage & Data KNFSD File Cache: Preview, NFS caching on AWS, VPC-speed reads Managed Prometheus: 1.5B active time series, 200K rules per workspace Apache Flink 2.3: Adaptive partitions, better CDC handling Networking NLB: Listener rules for source IP type routing, preserves client IP Direct Connect Peru: First 100Gbps location in Lima with MACsec Security & Management CloudTrail: Filter network events by identity for VPC endpoint logging Secrets Manager: Direct EventBridge events on value changes Organizations: 2000 RCPs per org (2x increase) Entity Resolution: Real-time advanced matching in milliseconds Developer Tools CloudWatch Coding Agent Insights: Track AI tool ROI, token alerts SageMaker Unified Studio: OpenSearch integration 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/42224205

AWS News Jul 06 - Jul 12 07/13/2026

AWS News Jul 06 - Jul 12 This week: Security Hub expands to monitor Microsoft Azure resources alongside AWS with unified posture management, Systems Manager now connects and manages Azure VMs without manual agent installation, and ACM launches a fully managed ACME server for automated TLS certificate issuance. Plus RDS for Oracle 26ai brings Bedrock integration, and Aurora Dsql adds real-time CDC to Kinesis. Security & Identity Secrets Manager: Auto-rotation for Paddle API keys, GitLab tokens ACM: Managed ACME server for automated TLS via Certbot/cert-manager Security Hub: Blast radius mapping, attack chain graphs Security Hub: Azure resource monitoring (VMs, containers, identities) Security Hub: Network scanning confirms actual internet reachability Organizations: Account departure controls enabled by default VPC: Centralized encryption-in-transit via declarative policies Compute & Containers EKS Auto Mode: GPU fees cut 35% (G-series), 60% (P-series) July 2026 ECS Managed: Same GPU fee reductions as EKS Auto Mode EMR Serverless: 2x worker limits (32 vCPUs, 244GB memory) EC2: Replace root volume directly from EBS, no snapshot needed AI/ML SageMaker Studio: One-click Hugging Face model import SageMaker HyperPod: Disaggregated prefill/decode for LLM inference SageMaker HyperPod: AMI-based Slurm config, deep health checks SageMaker Unified Studio: MWAA integration, 19 new workflow operators SageMaker Unified Studio: OpenLineage data lineage for IAM domains SageMaker Unified Studio: Custom asset cataloging (any format) SageMaker Feature Store: Batch ops for high-throughput ingestion Neuron 2.31: MX FP8, UltraServer Operator, 14 new kernels RDS Oracle 26ai: Bedrock integration, AI Vector Search, Select AI Data & Analytics Aurora DSQL: CDC streaming to Kinesis Data Streams Redshift: Graviton R8g, 2.4x faster, 30% cheaper MSK Replicator: External Kafka to MSK Standard brokers Management & DevTools Systems Manager: Azure VM management without agent install CloudWatch App Signals: Auto exception snapshots, latency anomalies Config: 191 new managed rules (Bedrock, SageMaker, EKS, etc.) AWS MCP Server: OAuth support, DMS Schema Conversion integration EMR on EKS: AI Spark troubleshooting agent Builder Center: Free 8-hour sandbox environments 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/42054475

AWS News Jun 29 - Jul 05 07/06/2026

AWS News Jun 29 - Jul 05 This week: EC2 C9g instances debut with fifth-gen Graviton delivering 25% better performance, Claude Sonnet 5 arrives on Bedrock with superior coding and agentic capabilities, and CloudFormation express mode cuts deployments by up to 4x. Plus OpenSearch gets a purpose-built log analytics engine with 4x better price-performance, and ECS adds zone-aware routing to cut cross-AZ costs. Compute EC2 C9g/C9gd: Graviton 5, 25% faster than G4, 35% faster ML inference EC2 Dedicated Hosts: AMD SEV-SNP confidential computing support EC2 Auto Scaling: Reservations-then-balanced strategy for capacity reservations Time Sync: Microsecond accuracy on 26 more instance types AI/ML Claude Sonnet 5: On Bedrock, better multi-file code changes, fewer corrections Bedrock AgentCore: 5K concurrent sessions, 200 interactions/sec default quotas Bedrock AgentCore Gateway: WAF integration for agent protection SageMaker: Serverless fine-tuning for Gemma 4 models (4B, 31B) SageMaker Inference: Auto image caching, 50% faster cold starts SageMaker HyperPod: Auto security patching, AMI version visibility Security Hub: 31 AI security controls for Bedrock/SageMaker GovCloud: GPT-5.4 (272K context), Nemotron 3 Super on Bedrock Containers EKS: Minor version rollback within 7 days ECS Express Mode: Custom task definitions supported ECS: Zone-aware Service Connect routing, deployment timeline UI ECS: Configurable circuit breaker thresholds Network Firewall: Native container rules (namespace, labels) Storage & Data S3 Logs: Direct to CloudWatch Logs and S3 Tables (Iceberg) OpenSearch: Log analytics engine, 4x price-performance, 70% less storage Neptune: Dual-stack IPv4/IPv6 support Operations CloudFormation: Pre-deployment validation in seconds CloudFormation Express: 4x faster deploys (CloudFront in seconds) CloudWatch Logs: Auto tag enrichment, query-based alarms CloudWatch Pipelines: OpenTelemetry metric transformations Security GuardDuty: File modification detection on EC2/EKS/ECS IAM Identity Center: Programmatic account access for apps RDS: Dynamic IAM auth scaling, no connection limits Networking Interconnect Last Mile: Preview with AT&T, automated branch connectivity 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/41972780

AWS News Jun 22 - Jun 28 06/29/2026

AWS News Jun 22 - Jun 28 This week: Lambda MicroVMs bring VM-level isolation to serverless for running untrusted code, GuardDuty adds AI-powered investigations to help distinguish real threats from false positives, and CloudWatch Logs now accepts syslog directly from network devices without agents. Plus Outposts gets full lifecycle management in the console and new OpenAI models hit Bedrock in GovCloud. Compute & Infrastructure Lambda MicroVMs: VM-level isolation for user/AI code, 8hr state, dedicated HTTPS endpoint EC2 AMI Watermarks: Custom watermarks persist through copies, track provenance SageMaker G7e: 8x RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell GPUs, 96GB each for LLM/agentic AI SageMaker G6e: 8x L40S GPUs, 2.5x better than G5, 13B param LLMs EMR Serverless: Update app configs without stopping running jobs AI & Machine Learning Bedrock GovCloud: OpenAI GPT, NVIDIA Nemotron models, FedRAMP High/IL4-5 Bedrock Guardrails: Auto-refine policies via iterative improvement workflows Bedrock AgentCore: Cross-account memory access via resource-based policies GuardDuty AI Investigations: 90-day analysis, MITRE ATT&CK mapping, confidence scoring Kiro GovCloud: FedRAMP High/IL4-5 for agentic AI development MSK AI Agent Skills: Expert guidance for troubleshooting, sizing, migrations Networking & Security CloudWatch Logs: Direct syslog ingestion via VPC endpoint, auto-parsing Network Firewall: Safer default drop action, VisionHeight managed rules Route 53 Global Resolver: Share DNS views cross-account via RAM Cognito: Customer-managed KMS keys for user pool encryption Data & Analytics S3 Backup: 8x faster cross-account/region copies via change tracking Neptune: CloudFormation support for global databases OpenSearch: AI-assisted migrations from Solr/Elasticsearch MSK Replicator: mTLS auth for external Kafka migrations Operations & Management CloudWatch Container Insights: OTel-based metrics every 30s for EKS CloudWatch Dashboards: Tagging support, ABAC via IAM IAM Identity Center: Separate quotas for accounts (7K) and apps (7K) Outposts: Full lifecycle management via console/CLI/API Other Updates HealthOmics: Nextflow profiles, ephemeral storage up to 3TB Connect: Agentic CX designer preview, Live Sync for guided experiences Batch: Instance priority control with new allocation strategies Swift IoT SDK: Native Apple/Linux support with TLS 1.3 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/41859460

AWS News Jun 15 - Jun 21 06/22/2026

AWS News Jun 15 - Jun 21 This week: AWS launches Continuum for autonomous security vulnerability management, Bedrock AgentCore reaches GA with built-in guardrails and optimization tools, and S3 Vectors slashes query costs by up to 80%. Plus WAF introduces AI bot monetization, CloudWatch adds cross-account metrics replication, and new Graviton 5-powered M9g database instances deliver 30% better performance. Compute EC2 G7: GA, NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell, 4.6x better AI inference vs G6 RDS: M9g instances (Graviton 5), 30% better perf, up to 192 vCPU RDS X2m: Memory-optimized SQL Server, 50%+ licensing savings, 4TB RAM Outposts: bmn-cx3a bare-metal, AMD EPYC + 800Gbps networking ECS: Auto scaling 4x faster with 20-second metric resolution Storage & Data S3 Vectors: 80% lower query costs for 10M+ vectors, 10K results/query (100x increase) S3 Annotations: Up to 1GB JSON/XML/YAML metadata per object RDS SQL Server: GP3 volumes to 64TiB, 80K IOPS, 2000MB/s (4-5x increase) AI/ML Bedrock AgentCore: GA - harness, memory, web search, guardrails integration Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base: GA, 6 connectors, hybrid search Bedrock Guardrails: InvokeGuardrailChecks API, Automated Reasoning in Sydney Glue Catalog: AI-enriched tables with glossary terms, semantic search API Security AWS Continuum: Security Agent with simulated exploit validation Security Agent: AI threat modeling (STRIDE), IDE integration WAF: Traffic monetization for AI bots via x402 protocol Route 53: Palo Alto DNS Security integration (preview) Console Sign-in: Resource-based policies for network restrictions Observability CloudWatch: Cross-account metric replication, OpenTelemetry support, Query Studio GA CloudWatch Log Analytics: Unified Insights/Live Tail/Contributor console CloudWatch Synthetics: Multi-region canaries from single config Developer Tools Blocks: Open-source TypeScript framework, local-to-prod with zero changes DevOps Agent: Custom SRE agents, headless mode, release management (preview) Transform: Continuous modernization, mainframe workflows, Bedrock migration assessment Database Aurora/RDS MySQL: Extended support through June 2029 Oracle DB@AWS: Autonomous AI Database Serverless on Exadata 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/41721355

AWS News Jun 08 - Jun 14 06/15/2026

AWS News Jun 08 - Jun 14 This week: New Graviton5-powered M9g instances deliver 25% better compute with mathematically proven workload isolation, Claude Fable 5 brings autonomous AI agents to Bedrock, and Amazon Q now explains your cost anomalies and spending patterns in plain language. Plus Lambda Managed Instances hit most regions, CloudWatch Logs gets 23 new query commands, and VPC Flow Logs now captures resource tags directly. Analytics & Data Redshift: Snapshot billing now based on unique blocks, not total size Aurora DSequel: JSONB support with default compression DocumentDB 5.0.1: New aggregation operators, command-level CloudWatch metrics Aurora PostgreSQL 18.3: B-tree skip scans, parallel large transaction replication OpenSearch: MCP Apps for AI agents to query logs/traces/metrics Compute EC2 M9g/M9gd: Graviton5, 25% better performance, first Nitro Isolation Engine EC2 M8i/R8i: Bare metal sizes with 600Gbps network, 300Gbps EBS Lambda Managed Instances: EC2 pricing models for steady-state workloads ECS Managed Daemons: Inter-task visibility via pid/ipc mode settings AI/ML Bedrock: Claude Fable 5 (Mythos-class), Gemma 4 family (3 variants, 256K context) SageMaker: Serverless fine-tuning for Nemotron 3 Nano (30B params) EMR Serverless: Spark Connect interactive sessions QuickSight: Snowflake Cortex AI integration via MCP Cost & Observtic Cost Anomaly Detection: Amazon Q explains spending with CloudTrail correlation Cost Explorer: Q Developer integration for one-click spend analysis Compute Optimizer: Idle detection for 6 more services (DynamoDB, ElastiCache, etc.) Savings Plans Analyzer: Set coverage targets, compare scenarios CUR 2.0: Update table configs without recreating exports Observability CloudWatch Logs Insights: 23 new commands (hash, CSV/XML parsing, histograms) VPC Flow Logs: EC2 tags and next-hop metadata captured directly Application Signals: Health-ranked service maps, infra/logs/traces tabs Prometheus: Native histograms, out-of-order sample ingestion Migration & Management Application Migration Service: Renamed to Transform MGN Lake Formation: S3 file access using table permissions Workload Credentials Provider: Open source cert/secrets automation MWAA Serverless: EventBridge events for workflow state changes 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/41645590

AWS News Jun 01 - Jun 07 06/08/2026

AWS News Jun 01 - Jun 07 This week: OpenAI's GPT 5.5 and Codex land on Amazon Bedrock with full pricing parity, Cognito adds multi-region replication for resilient authentication, and ECS on Fargate scales up to 32 vCPUs for demanding workloads. Plus Bedrock AgentCore gets interactive terminal access for debugging AI agents, and the AWS MCP Server now supports multi-account workflows in a single session. Email & Messaging SES: Per-tenant suppression lists for bounce/complaint isolation AI/ML - Bedrock Bedrock: OpenAI GPT-5.5, GPT-5.4, Codex now GA Bedrock: CloudWatch metrics for OpenAI/Anthropic endpoints Bedrock: GPT-5.4 in GovCloud US West Bedrock AgentCore: BYOS from Secrets Manager with custom KMS/rotation Bedrock AgentCore: Interactive terminal access to agent sessions Bedrock Console: Redesigned with unified catalog, project-aware docs AI/ML - SageMaker HyperPod: EFA-only interfaces (no IP consumption for large clusters) HyperPod: AI coding assistant troubleshooting (Claude Code, Cursor, Kiro) Unified Studio: Custom IAM permissions boundaries for SCP compliance Unified Studio: 12 languages, quick setup under 20 seconds Unified Studio: Schedule notebook runs with AI troubleshooting Data Agent: Conversation history, Catalog business context integration SageMaker AI: Multi-turn RL for agentic fine-tuning (serverless) Compute & Containers ECS: Trainium/Inferentia support for Managed Instances ECS Fargate: 32 vCPU tasks with up to 244GB memory EKS: Kubernetes 1.36 (User Namespaces GA, in-place vertical scaling) EKS: CloudWatch Vended Logs for managed controllers PCS: Deep Learning AMI on Ubuntu 24.04 with NVIDIA/EFA/Lustre Networking & Storage Direct Connect: Per-VIF bandwidth limits (50Mbps-1.6Tbps) ElastiCache Valkey: Sync/async durability for data persistence Database RDS SQL Server: Bring Your Own Media for license mobility RDS DB2: Version 12.1 with free Community Edition Keyspaces: CDC iterator position for adaptive polling Analytics & BI QuickSight: Private VPC-hosted MCP server connections Q Research: Customer-managed KMS encryption CUR 2.0: Direct Athena/Redshift integration, no 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/41569710

AWS News May 25 - May 31 06/01/2026

AWS News May 25 - May 31 This week: Major GPU upgrades hit SageMaker with P6 Blackwell and P5e H200 instances for AI training, OpenSearch Serverless scales 20x faster with scale-to-zero pricing for agentic workloads, and Claude Opus 4 arrives on Bedrock for complex autonomous coding tasks. Plus Shield Advanced adds packet-level DDoS forensics and SES now shows inbox placement metrics. Security & Compliance GuardDuty: Malware scan for S3 continuous backups, verify clean recovery points Shield Advanced: Packet-level DDoS forensics (IPs, ports, protocols) to S3/CloudWatch Backup: OTP verification required for multi-party approval on air-gapped vaults Organizations: CloudTrail events for account join/leave with change method details DynamoDB Streams: PrivateLink FIPS endpoints in GovCloud AI/ML Bedrock: Claude Opus 4.8 for agentic coding, longer autonomous runs Neuron 2.30: NKI 0.4 with Trainium 3, 22 new kernels, agentic model porting SageMaker notebooks: P6 B200 (8x Blackwell GPUs), P5en, P5, P4de instances Elemental Inference: Smart Subtitles - AI real-time captions, multi-language Database & Analytics RDS Multi-AZ: ENA Express replication, 25Gbps single-flow, lower latency Aurora MySQL: Kiro integration for natural language DB operations EMR: Spark 4.0.2, VARIANT types, Iceberg v3 lineage, Lake Formation RBAC Redshift Serverless: 4 RPU minimum ($1.50/hr) in more regions Networking & Infrastructure Interconnect multicloud: Free 500Mbps tier (160TB/month) IPAM: Tags on pool allocations for IAM/SCP governance IoT Core: Direct messaging API with delivery acknowledgements OpenSearch & Search OpenSearch Serverless: 20x faster scaling, scale-to-zero, 60% cost savings Contact Center Connect Profiles: AI post-contact summaries in 8 language families Connect Profiles: GenAI self-service evaluation with custom criteria Connect: Task scheduling up to 90 days, tag-based agent report access Operations Resilience Hub: 3-level app model, AI failure assessment, Organizations integration SES: Inbox placement metrics, blocklist monitoring, pre-send testing Cost Management: Budgets widgets in dashboards 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/41490065

AWS News May 18 - May 24 05/25/2026

AWS News May 18 - May 24 This week: Aurora MySQL 8.4 reaches GA with stronger security defaults, ECS deployments gain pause-and-continue controls for approval workflows, and Security Hub now detects unused IAM access across your organization. Plus DocumentDB Serverless gets major performance boosts, SAM CLI supports CloudFormation Language Extensions, and a new Istanbul Local Zone brings single-digit millisecond latency to Türkiye. Secrets & Identity Secrets Manager Agent: Pre-fetching for batch caching, IAM role assumption for cross-account Secrets Manager: Managed rotation for Datadog API keys and Snowflake tokens Security Hub: Detects unused IAM access across org, generates least-privilege policies Compute & Containers ECS: Pause/continue deployment controls with 14-day timeouts, approval workflows ECS + EBS: Now available in GovCloud regions Elastic VMware Service: 32 ESXi hosts per environment (2x increase) Lightsail CDN: IPv6-only instance origins supported Data & Analytics Redshift: Direct writes to Iceberg tables, ALTER TABLE for partitioning DocumentDB Serverless: v8.0 with 7x query latency, 30x faster vector index builds Aurora MySQL 8.4: GA with TLS 1.2/1.3 enforced, automated upgrade prechecks CloudWatch Logs Insights: 13 new commands (base64 decode, logfmt parse, geo distance) Keyspaces: Expanded to new Asia Pacific regions ML & AI SageMaker Studio: GPU reservation via Flexible Training Plans, up to 65% savings SageMaker HyperPod: Inference payload capture to S3 for training/evaluation SageMaker endpoints: OpenAI-compatible APIs (works with LangChain, Strands) SageMaker Unified Studio: Glue Data Quality rules, auto connector provisioning, business metadata Bedrock: Custom tagging for inference calls (team, project, environment) Infrastructure & Networking Local Zones: Istanbul launch (C7i, M7i, R7i, S3, EKS, ALB) Local Zones: Now in console region selector Managed Grafana: Dual-stack IPv4/IPv6 connectivity Transfer Family: Federated permissions with Identity Center multi-region Developer Tools SAM CLI: CloudFormation Language Extensions support (Fn::ForEach) ExtendDB: Open source DynamoDB adapter with PostgreSQL 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/41412865

AWS News May 11 - May 17 05/18/2026

AWS News May 11 - May 17 This week: AWS Transform adds containerized migration and an agentic AI assistant for .NET developers, Claude Platform launches as GA making AWS the first cloud to offer Anthropic's native experience, and EC2 M3 Ultra Mac instances bring Mac Studio hardware to the cloud. Plus CloudFormation's new cross-account output references, major SageMaker GPU instance expansions, and Organizations doubles SCP limits. Migration & Modernization Transform: Containerizes apps, generates Dockerfiles, Terraform, Helm charts Transform: Agentic AI assistant for .NET modernization in VS Toolkit Transform: Agent builder toolkit for custom modernization agents Transform: BYOB S3 storage with KMS encryption AI/ML Claude Platform: GA on AWS - first cloud with native Anthropic experience via IAM SageMaker: P6b200 instances (8 Blackwell GPUs, 1400GB HBM), 2x perf vs P5en SageMaker: Serverless fine-tuning for Qwen 3.6 (27B params) SageMaker Data Agent: IAM Identity Center support, generates Python/SQL from English SageMaker Feature Store: Python SDK v3 with Lake Formation access controls Bedrock: Advanced Prompt Optimization - compare across 5 models, multimodal support Security Agent: Full repo code review, reasons about architecture and trust boundaries Compute & Networking EC2 M3 Ultra Mac: GA - M3 Ultra chip, 28-core CPU, 256GB unified memory ENA Express: 25Gbps cross-AZ (was 5Gbps) Karpenter: ARC zonal shift integration for EKS Redshift RG: Graviton-powered, 2.4x faster, 30% lower cost, built-in data lake engine Database & Storage Aurora D-sequel: CDC preview - streams changes to Kinesis RDS Oracle: M8i/R8i with Standard Edition License Included FSx OpenZFS: Multi-AZ in shared VPCs for participant accounts Serverless & Events Lambda: Scheduled scaling via EventBridge Scheduler EventBridge Scheduler: 13 new services, 600+ API actions, 270+ total ARC Region Switch: Automates Lambda event source failover Networking & Security CloudFront: Premium tiers now self-service (500M-6B requests) CloudFront: OCSP revocation checking and mTLS passthrough mode WAF: Dynamic label interpolation, synthetic labels for IP/JA3/JA4 Organizations: 2x SCP limits (10 per node, 10K chars) CloudFormation: Fn::GetStackOutput for cross-account/region refs 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/41329375

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

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