Dec. 29, 2025

AWS News Dec 22 - Dec 28

Show Notes

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

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