AWS News Weekly

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: Whats new at AWS [https://aws.amazon.com/new/?whats-new-content-all.sort-by=item.additionalFields.postDateTime&whats-new-content-all.sort-order=desc&awsf.whats-new-categories=*all] For help with your AWS Infrastructure check out flomotlik.me [https://flomotlik.me] or email flo@flomotlik.me [flo@flomotlik.me] For detailed show notes check out awsnewsweekly.com [https://awsnewsweekly.com]

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: Whats new at AWS [https://aws.amazon.com/new/?whats-new-content-all.sort-by=item.additionalFields.postDateTime&whats-new-content-all.sort-order=desc&awsf.whats-new-categories=*all] For help with your AWS Infrastructure check out flomotlik.me [https://flomotlik.me] or email flo@flomotlik.me [flo@flomotlik.me] For detailed show notes check out awsnewsweekly.com [https://awsnewsweekly.com]

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: Whats new at AWS [https://aws.amazon.com/new/?whats-new-content-all.sort-by=item.additionalFields.postDateTime&whats-new-content-all.sort-order=desc&awsf.whats-new-categories=*all] For help with your AWS Infrastructure check out flomotlik.me [https://flomotlik.me] or email flo@flomotlik.me [flo@flomotlik.me] For detailed show notes check out awsnewsweekly.com [https://awsnewsweekly.com]

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: Whats new at AWS [https://aws.amazon.com/new/?whats-new-content-all.sort-by=item.additionalFields.postDateTime&whats-new-content-all.sort-order=desc&awsf.whats-new-categories=*all] For help with your AWS Infrastructure check out flomotlik.me [https://flomotlik.me] or email flo@flomotlik.me [flo@flomotlik.me] For detailed show notes check out awsnewsweekly.com [https://awsnewsweekly.com]

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: Whats new at AWS [https://aws.amazon.com/new/?whats-new-content-all.sort-by=item.additionalFields.postDateTime&whats-new-content-all.sort-order=desc&awsf.whats-new-categories=*all] For help with your AWS Infrastructure check out flomotlik.me [https://flomotlik.me] or email flo@flomotlik.me [flo@flomotlik.me] For detailed show notes check out awsnewsweekly.com [https://awsnewsweekly.com]