Aug. 17, 2026

AWS News Aug 10 - Aug 16

Show Notes

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/Docker; Auto Scaling replaces unhealthy instances
EKS: Tune control plane params for pod placement and autoscaling
Spot: Placement score now includes Local Zones

Storage & Database

RDS MariaDB: 12.3 LTS with Oracle TO_DATE compatibility, JSON validation
RDS Oracle: APEX 26.1 low-code support
Redshift: 2.4x faster at 30% lower cost

AI/ML - SageMaker JumpStart

GLM 5.2 FP8: 1M token context for agentic tasks
NVIDIA Nemotron: Nano 12B (6x throughput), 3.5 Lightning 30B (4x throughput)
Qwen: AgentWorld 35B, 3.5 122B multimodal (262K context)
Specialized: GLM OCR, LightOn OCR, Redis langcache-embed, JetBrains Mellum2, FLUX 2, Gemma 4 12B

AI/ML - Bedrock

OpenAI Daybreak: Cyber defense models (Blue/Red) with chip-level security
Cost allocation: IAM principal tagging for bedrock-mantle endpoint

Security & Identity

IAM: Account access manager (Identity Center + IAM roles), Role manager auto-creates service roles
S3: Access denied errors show specific blocking policy ARN
ACM: Switch email→DNS validation without reissuing
Secrets Manager: Auto-rotation for Jenkins/SonarQube tokens

Analytics & BI

QuickSight: Purview DLP integration, deny-by-default for AI, per-user limits
Clean Rooms: Privacy-enhanced SQL logs, custom aggregation thresholds
Glue: One-click jump to SageMaker Unified Studio

Management & Cost

Console: Interactive global map for regions/local zones
Billing: 5 preconfigured dashboards (cost trends, compute, database, reservations)
Marketplace: Customizable notifications by category/channel

Networking & Migration