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Flo Motlik - theserverlessway.com

Weekly Summaries of all AWS News and Releases

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13:33

AWS News Mar 09 - Mar 15

AWS News Weekly ·

2026/03/16

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

10:57

AWS News Mar 02 - Mar 08

AWS News Weekly ·

2026/03/09

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

19:02

AWS News Feb 23 - Mar 01

AWS News Weekly ·

2026/03/02

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:

09:10

AWS News Feb 16 - Feb 22

AWS News Weekly ·

2026/02/23

This week: EC2 enables nested virtualization on virtual instances for KVM and Hyper-V workloads, Aurora now encrypts all new clusters by default, and new HPC8a instances deliver 40% higher performance for compute-intensive workloads. Plus Bedrock adds reinforcement fine-tuning for open-weight models and ACM shortens certificate validity to 198 days. Compute EC2: Nested virtualization on virtual instances (KVM, Hyper-V) EC2 HPC8a: 40% faster, 25% better price-perf vs HPC7a, 192 cores Database

16:09

AWS News Feb 09 - Feb 15

AWS News Weekly ·

2026/02/16

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

13:32

AWS News Feb 02 - Feb 08

AWS News Weekly ·

2026/02/09

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

10:53

AWS News Jan 26 - Feb 01

AWS News Weekly ·

2026/02/02

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

14:16

AWS News Jan 19 - Jan 25

AWS News Weekly ·

2026/01/26

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

10:13

AWS News Jan 12 - Jan 18

AWS News Weekly ·

2026/01/19

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

05:56

AWS News Jan 05 - Jan 11

AWS News Weekly ·

2026/01/12

This week: Lambda adds dot NET ten as a managed runtime, ECS brings tmpfs mounts to Fargate for fast in-memory scratch storage, and RDS for SQL Server expands cross-region read replicas to sixteen new regions. Plus EC two Capacity Manager now tracks Spot interruption metrics, and Amazon Q gains integrations with Box, Canva, PagerDuty and more. Compute EC2 Capacity Manager: Spot interruption metrics (running instances, interruption counts/rates) ECS: tmpfs mounts on Fargate/Managed Instances for

02:30

AWS News Dec 29 - Jan 04

AWS News Weekly ·

2026/01/05

This week: Amazon Connect gets powerful new filtering by custom business dimensions and nested JSON support for dynamic call flows. CloudWatch simplifies CloudTrail Lake imports for unified logging, while Clean Rooms adds detailed query metrics. Plus OpenSearch UI enhances encryption with customer managed keys. Search & Analytics OpenSearch UI: Customer-managed keys for metadata encryption, increased metadata size limits Contact Center Connect Dashboards: Filter metrics by custom business

08:41

AWS News Dec 22 - Dec 28

AWS News Weekly ·

2025/12/29

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

20:07

AWS News Dec 15 - Dec 21

AWS News Weekly ·

2025/12/23

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

10:47

AWS News Dec 08 - Dec 14

AWS News Weekly ·

2025/12/15

This week: AWS launches Graviton4-powered C8gb instances with 30% better performance, Aurora DSQL enables instant cluster creation for rapid prototyping, and ElastiCache Serverless adds WATCH command support for reliable transactions. Plus DataSync Enhanced mode expands to on-premises transfers, ECS adds custom stop signals on Fargate, and Shield introduces multi-account security analysis. AWS News Feed: ⁠Whats new at AWS⁠ For Expert Support with your AWS Infrastructure check out

32:53

AWS News Dec 01 - Dec 07

AWS News Weekly ·

2025/12/08

This week: AWS Transform launches agentic AI to automate VMware migrations and code modernization at scale, while Lambda introduces durable functions for reliable multi-step workflows. Amazon Bedrock expands with 18 new models including Nova two Omni for multimodal reasoning, S3 now supports 50TB objects, and new Graviton5-powered M9g instances deliver 25% better performance. AWS News Feed: ⁠Whats new at AWS⁠ For Expert Support with your AWS Infrastructure check out ⁠theserverlessway.com⁠ For

28:51

AWS News Oct 13 - Oct 19

AWS News Weekly ·

2025/10/23

This week: Amazon ElastiCache adds vector search for AI workloads, Bedrock AgentCore reaches GA with complete agentic platform capabilities, and AWS announces lifecycle changes for services entering maintenance mode. Plus CloudWatch gains generative AI observability, EBS introduces instant Volume Clones, and Claude Haiku 4.5 arrives with near-frontier performance at lower cost. AWS News Feed: ⁠Whats new at AWS⁠ For Expert Support with your AWS Infrastructure check out ⁠theserverlessway.com⁠ For

00:14:53

AWS News May 19 - May 25

AWS News Weekly ·

2025/07/06

AWS News Feed: ⁠Whats new at AWS⁠ For Expert Support with your AWS Infrastructure check out ⁠theserverlessway.com⁠ For detailed show notes check out ⁠awsnewsweekly.com

00:16:50

AWS News May 12 - May 18

AWS News Weekly ·

2025/07/06

AWS News Feed: ⁠Whats new at AWS⁠ For Expert Support with your AWS Infrastructure check out ⁠theserverlessway.com⁠ For detailed show notes check out ⁠awsnewsweekly.com

00:12:46

AWS News May 05 - May 11

AWS News Weekly ·

2025/05/16

AWS News Feed: ⁠Whats new at AWS⁠ For Expert Support with your AWS Infrastructure check out ⁠theserverlessway.com⁠ For detailed show notes check out ⁠awsnewsweekly.com

00:26:24

AWS News Apr 28 - May 04

AWS News Weekly ·

2025/05/08

AWS News Feed: ⁠Whats new at AWS⁠ For Expert Support with your AWS Infrastructure check out ⁠theserverlessway.com⁠ For detailed show notes check out ⁠awsnewsweekly.com

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