AWS News Weekly

This week: AWS slashes Payment Cryptography pricing by up to 63 percent, EKS adds cluster-wide network policies with DNS-based egress filtering, and Aurora PostgreSQL 18.1 hits preview with skip scan and parallel index builds. Plus new Graviton 4 M8gn instances deliver 600 Gbps networking, Certificate Manager automates Kubernetes certificate lifecycle, and Direct Connect expands to Vietnam. Compute EC2 M8gn/M8gb: Graviton4, 30% better perf, up to 600Gbps network EC2 AZ IDs: APIs accept physical zone IDs directly EC2 Auto Scaling: Sync Launch Instances API with instant feedback ECS Managed Instances: Now supports Spot (up to 90% discount) ECS Fargate: Weekly event windows for task retirement Containers & Kubernetes EKS: Cluster-wide network filters + DNS-based egress policies ECR: Auto-creates repos on push; Public now supports PrivateLink ACM for K8s: Full cert lifecycle automation via ACK controller Database Aurora PostgreSQL 18.1: Skip scan, parallel GIN builds (preview) Aurora PostgreSQL: 5 new versions, faster Blue/Green switchovers OpenSearch OI2: 9% higher indexing, multi-tier S3 storage with writes Timestream InfluxDB: Restart API for v2 and v3 Analytics & ML Redshift Serverless: Dual-stack IPv6 support QuickSight: Persistent memory across chats; browser extension runs Flows Bedrock Data Automation: Auto-optimizes blueprints from 10 examples SageMaker Studio: SOCI indexing cuts container startup 30-50% Networking Direct Connect: Vietnam location; FIS integration for BGP failover testing Route 53 Resolver: Detailed CloudWatch metrics (latency, errors) Security & Compliance Control Tower: 176 new Security Hub controls Artifact: Self-service access to historical compliance reports Security Incident Response: Slack integration (bidirectional sync) SES: Email validation API + Auto Validation for bounce reduction Cost & Management Cost Allocation Tags: Works with Organizations account tags Billing Dashboards: PDF/CSV export Payment Cryptography: Up to 63% price cut + tiered pricing Carbon Footprint: 21-day lag (was 3 months) Messaging & IoT MSK: Kafka 3.9 with KRaft (no ZooKeeper); Connect dual-stack IoT Core: HTTP batch actions; event-based log levels IoT Device Mgmt: Dynamic command payloads with validation AWS News Feed: Whats new at AWS For Expert Support with your AWS Infrastructure check out theserverlessway.com For detailed show notes check out awsnewsweekly.com

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 ⁠theserverlessway.com⁠ For detailed show notes check out ⁠awsnewsweekly.com

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 detailed show notes check out ⁠awsnewsweekly.com

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 detailed show notes check out ⁠awsnewsweekly.com

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