AWS News Weekly

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-by-default for AI capabilities. Compute & Infrastructure EC2: App status checks monitor web servers/

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 <1 second, up to 256 A

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 Mul

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

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 & Identity Secrets Manager: Auto-rotation for Paddle API keys, GitLab tokens ACM: Managed ACME server

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 C9g/C9gd: Graviton 5, 25% faster than G4, 35% faster ML inference EC2 Dedicated Hosts: AMD SEV-SNP co