AWS News Weekly

Flo Motlik - theserverlessway.com

Weekly Summaries of all AWS News and Releases

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    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 metrics (running instances, interruption counts/rates) ECS: tmpfs mounts on Fargate/Managed Instances for in-memory scratch storage Lambda: .NET 10 managed runtime + container base image with LTS support Networking Client VPN: Quickstart setup - 3 inputs to create endpoint (CIDR, cert, subnet) Database DocumentDB: Now in Asia Pacific Jakarta region RDS SQL Server: Cross-region read replicas in 16 additional regions (up to 15 replicas) Lightsail: Larger DB bundles - 8 vCPUs, 32GB RAM, 960GB SSD Messaging Amazon MQ RabbitMQ: External HTTP auth server support (v4.2+, M7g) Amazon MQ RabbitMQ: Mutual TLS certificate-based authentication Analytics & ML EMR Serverless: Cost allocation tags per job run (not just application) MWAA: Apache Airflow 2.11 + Python 3.12 support Q: Third-party AI agents (Box, Canva, PagerDuty) + expanded actions library Management AWS Config: 21 new resource types (EC2, SageMaker, S3 Tables) Marketplace Seller Reporting: Payment collection status visibility (invoiced/collected/disbursed) 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

    6 Min.
  2. 29.12.2025

    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 Learning Neuron SDK 2.27: Trainium 3 UltraServer support, Neuron Explorer, open-source MLIR compiler, native PyTorch via TorchNeuron Bedrock: Nemotron 3 Nano 30B, 256k context, hybrid MoE, Project Mantle distributed inference SageMaker: MiniMax M2, 230B params (10B active), elite coding/agentic performance Compute & Containers ECS Service Connect: Envoy access logs for service mesh traffic, query string redaction, HTTP/gRPC/TCP Database & Analytics Redshift: Materialized views from multiple warehouses, build on shared views, auto-scale creation RDS MySQL 9.5: Innovation Release in preview environment, 60-day retention Storage & Migration Storage Gateway: Nutanix AHV hypervisor support joins VMware/Hyper-V/KVM Transform: Auto network conversion for hybrid migrations, VLAN-to-VPC mapping Media & Gaming GameLift Streams: Gen6 L4 GPUs (2x perf), 7 tiers, warm buffer autoscaling GameLift Streams: Real-time CPU/GPU/memory stats per session, termination diagnostics Deadline Cloud Monitor: Submit render jobs from desktop UI, no CLI needed Messaging & Communication Wickr: Admin APIs for user lifecycle, retention policies, security group automation End User Messaging SMS: GenAI registration reviewer (preview) for carrier submissions Kinesis Video Streams: IPv6 WebRTC via dual-stack endpoints Security & Identity Secrets Manager: Sort by name, last changed/accessed, creation date WorkSpaces Secure Browser: WebAuthn redirect for FIDO2/passkeys/biometrics End User Computing WorkSpaces Secure Browser: Custom branding, logos, ToS acknowledgment, WCAG 2.0 AA Research & Engineering Studio 2025.12: Tag propagation, optional domain join, default schedules Contact Center Connect: Auto evaluations now in Portuguese, French, Italian, German, Spanish Regional MSK Provisioned: Asia Pacific New Zealand, Standard + Express brokers 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

    9 Min.
  3. 23.12.2025

    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. 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

    20 Min.

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Weekly Summaries of all AWS News and Releases