AWS News Weekly
Weekly summaries of all AWS news and releases. Each episode highlights the latest announcements from Amazon Web Services, including new services, feature updates, and other important changes. Aimed at developers and cloud practitioners, the show provides a concise overview of the AWS ecosystem. Hosted by Flo Motlik from the Serverless Way.
Episodes
AWS News Oct 05 - Oct 11
AI & Bedrock Nova 2.5 Sonic: GA voice model, better reasoning/tool calls, lower latency Claude Haiku 5.5: ~75% cheaper than Haiku 4.5, effort controls (+GovCloud) GLM 5.3: 753B MoE, 1M context, 128K output GPT-6.1 Sol: Ultrafast mode; reasoning summaries for OpenAI models TwelveLabs Pegasus 1.5: Video-to-text with time-coded metadata Kiro GovCloud: Opus 5.5 (half the tokens) & Sonnet 5.5 (30% fas
AWS News Sep 28 - Oct 04
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. A
AWS News Sep 21 - Sep 27
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 & M
AWS News Aug 10 - Aug 16
This week: EC2 launches application status checks for monitoring app-level health directly alongside instance checks, IAM introduces Account Access Manager for assigning roles to Identity Center users, and S3 now shows the specific policy ARN in access denied errors for faster troubleshooting. Plus new SageMaker JumpStart models, Bedrock cost allocation by IAM principal, and QuickSight adds deny-b
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 latenc
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
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,
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 & Id
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 C9
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 & Infrastr
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
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
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
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: Mal
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 t
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 SC
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 stora
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 orchestrat
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 Lu
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:
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 CloudFormati
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 r
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 b
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 I
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
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 Lea
AWS News Feb 16 - Feb 22
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 i
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 sca
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
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 resour
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 in
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
AWS News Jan 05 - Jan 11
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 metri
AWS News Dec 29 - Jan 04
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, incre
AWS News Dec 22 - Dec 28
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 Learni
AWS News Dec 15 - Dec 21
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. Comput
AWS News Dec 08 - Dec 14
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 New
AWS News Dec 01 - Dec 07
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
AWS News Oct 13 - Oct 19
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: Wha
AWS News May 19 - May 25
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AWS News May 12 - May 18
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AWS News May 05 - May 11
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AWS News Apr 28 - May 04
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AWS News Apr 14 - Apr 20
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AWS News Apr 07 - Apr 13
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AWS News Mar 24 - Mar 30
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AWS News Mar 17 - Mar 23
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AWS News Mar 10 - Mar 16
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AWS News Mar 03 - Mar 09
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AWS News Feb 24 - Mar 02
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AWS News Feb 17 - Feb 23
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AWS News Feb 10 - Feb 16
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AWS News Feb 03 - Feb 09
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AWS News Jan 27 - Feb 02
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AWS News Jan 20 - Jan 26
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AWS News Jan 13 - Jan 19
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AWS News Dec 9 - Dec 15
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AWS News Nov 25 - Dec 01
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AWS News Nov 18 - Nov 24
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AWS News Nov 11 - Nov 17
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AWS News Oct 28 - Nov 03
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AWS News for Oct 21 - Oct 27
AWS Firewall Manager: - Supports retrofitting existing WAF WebACLs with baseline rules and logging without affecting custom rules. AWS Billing: - Allows partial card payments for monthly bills through the Console. - AWS Billing Conductor integrates pro forma budgets for spend monitoring and alerts. Amazon CloudWatch: - Logs Insights uses named tokens; Log Anomaly detector quota increased to 500
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AWS News and Releases from the Week of October 7th 2024
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