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 latency, 99%+ recall, trillions of vectors
• Aurora Serverless: Scales to 12 ACUs in <1 second, up to 256 ACUs as demand grows
• 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)

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