AWS News Weekly

Weekly Summaries of all AWS News and Releases

AWS News Weekly is a technology podcast hosted by Flo Motlik - theserverlessway.com, with 62 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

Flo Motlik - theserverlessway.com hosts AWS News Weekly, a technology show with 62 episodes published.

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  AWS News Weekly

  AWS News Sep 28 - Oct 04

  Oct 5, 202627 min

  This week: Amazon Bedrock adds Claude Sonnet five point five plus new Grok and OpenAI models, Aurora PostgreSQL can now query Iceberg and Parquet data in S three with no ETL, and EKS gets Kubernetes one point thirty-seven with scale-to-zero autoscaling. Plus Security Hub remediation plans that fix multiple exposures at once, smarter S three Vectors filtering, and service retirements to plan for. AI & ML Bedrock : Claude Sonnet 5.5 (incl. GovCloud), Grok 4.7, GPT-6.1 Sol GPT-6 Astra : UltraFast mode, 6x faster (300 tok/s) Databases Aurora Serverless : Adds 16 ACUs/sec, scales to 256 ACUs Aurora PostgreSQL : Query Iceberg/Parquet via embedded DuckDB DocumentDB 8.0.2 : Retryable writes, 5 new aggregation stages RDS/Aurora : R8a and M8a AMD instances ElastiCache Valkey : Serverless public endpoints; 15s OTel metrics DynamoDB : Filtered export to S3 Analytics & Storage S3 Vectors : Metadata pre-filtering, up to 5x higher recall S3 Tables : All Iceberg V3 types; 100 buckets/Region (10x) Glue : Iceberg V3 optimization; write-protected materialized views EMR Serverless : 1TB shuffle (up from 200GB) Redshift : Cross-Region data lake queries; DEBUG log permission CloudWatch Logs : Auto-indexing; bytes-scanned query estimate Security Security Hub : Remediation plans grouped by root cause GuardDuty : Org declarative policies; Runtime Monitoring in Security Hub CloudTrail : Event Coverage reveals data event logging gaps Route 53 DNS Firewall : Palo Alto DNS Security GA; DNS analytics IAM Identity Center : Multi-Region in opt-in, GovCloud, China Containers & Compute EKS 1.37 : Metrics API GA, HPA scale-to-zero beta ECS : Blue/green, linear, canary via VPC Lattice WorkSpaces Core : G7 Blackwell GPUs, 2.1x vs G6 Deadline Cloud : ECS containers; job template expressions Lifecycle Sunset : Managed Blockchain, DevOps Guru (2027) End of support : Mechanical Turk Other Backup : Air-gapped vaults for FSx for NetApp ONTAP Grafana 13.2 : Git Sync, dynamic dashboards SSM / DataSync : RAM org sharing; shared VPC support Transfer Family : Multi-file download; 1,000 connector auto-approval AWS News Feed: Whats new at AWS For help with your AWS Infrastructure check out flomotlik.me or email flo@flomotlik.me For detailed show notes check out awsnewsweekly.com

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  AWS News Weekly

  AWS News Sep 21 - Sep 27

  Sep 28, 202614 min

  This week: Claude Opus five point five lands in Amazon Bedrock alongside OpenAI's new GPT six Sol and Luna models, CloudWatch Omni brings AI-first observability built on OpenTelemetry, and EventBridge relaunches custom event buses with strict ordering and cross-account sharing. Plus DynamoDB multi-region strong consistency expands to fifteen regions, and EMR gets Long Term Support releases. AI & ML Bedrock : Claude Opus 5.5, fewer tokens, cheaper than Opus 5; in GovCloud Bedrock : OpenAI GPT-6 Sol & Luna, 1M-token context Bedrock Knowledge Base : Salesforce & Zendesk native connectors SageMaker HyperPod : Inference Gateway, up to 82% lower first-token latency Glue Data Quality : GenAI rule recommendations in seconds Observability CloudWatch Omni : GA, AI-first OpenTelemetry observability incl. Azure ECS : Live deployment timeline for canary/linear/blue-green, free DataSync : Free dashboard for all task executions Security & Compliance Network Security Manager : GA, org-wide WAF/Shield, auto drift fixes RDS PostgreSQL : Post-quantum TLS key exchange (v18+) EVS : FedRAMP Class C in US regions Security Hub : AI Inventory finds AI assets on Azure VMs IAM : Outbound federation OIDC discovery via VPC endpoints Transcribe : Customer-managed KMS keys for vocabularies/models Databases DynamoDB : Multi-region strong consistency in 15 regions, zero RPO RDS SQL Server Dev : Multi-AZ Always On AGs, no Enterprise license RDS : MySQL 5.7.44/8.0.46 Extended Support; SQL Server 2022 CU26 RDS Preview : PostgreSQL 19 Beta 4 ElastiCache Global Datastore : Tagging & tag-based access control Analytics & Streaming EMR : LTS releases, 36 months of fixes; Spark 4.1 + Iceberg v3 EMR 7.14 : Spark 3.5.8, IPv6 & Spark Connect on EKS, 1TiB serverless Kinesis Data Streams : Service-managed partition keys, no hot shards EventBridge : New custom bus: cross-account, ordering, 1-yr retention Contact Center & Messaging Connect : Multi-agent AI via A2A protocol; routing step analytics End User Messaging : WhatsApp voice calls End User Messaging & SES : Agent skills for AWS MCP Server AWS News Feed: Whats new at AWS For help with your AWS Infrastructure check out flomotlik.me or email flo@flomotlik.me For detailed show notes check out awsnewsweekly.com

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  AWS News Weekly

  AWS News Aug 03 - Aug 09

  Aug 10, 202623 min

  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 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: Whats new at AWS For help with your AWS Infrastructure check out flomotlik.me or email flo@flomotlik.me For detailed show notes check out awsnewsweekly.com

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  AWS News Weekly

  AWS News Jul 27 - Aug 02

  Aug 3, 202617 min

  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: Whats new at AWS For help with your AWS Infrastructure check out flomotlik.me or email flo@flomotlik.me For detailed show notes check out awsnewsweekly.com

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  AWS News Weekly

  AWS News Jul 20 - Jul 26

  Jul 27, 202620 min

  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: Whats new at AWS For help with your AWS Infrastructure check out flomotlik.me or email flo@flomotlik.me For detailed show notes check out awsnewsweekly.com

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