March 2, 2026

AWS News Feb 23 - Mar 01

Show Notes

This week: Graviton 4 bare-metal instances arrive with M8gn delivering 600 Gbps networking, Amazon Q Developer now generates visual charts and tables directly in the console, and WAF adds an AI activity dashboard tracking over 650 bots and agents. Plus Aurora DSQL gets a browser playground, Bedrock handles tool execution server-side, and EKS Node Monitoring Agent goes open source.

AI & Machine Learning

Bedrock: Automated Reasoning links rules to source docs; 99% hallucination detection
Bedrock: Server-side tool execution via AgentCore Gateway, no client orchestration
Bedrock: Batch inference supports Converse API for model-agnostic prompts
Bedrock Mantle: OpenAI-compatible Projects API for isolated team environments
Elemental Inference: AI-powered landscape-to-vertical video conversion in real-time
WAF: AI activity dashboard, 650+ bot/agent detection catalog

Compute & Instances

EC2 M8gn/M8gb metal: 30% better compute vs Graviton3, up to 600Gbps network
EC2 I8g metal: 60% better compute, 65% better storage perf, 50% lower latency
EC2 M8i/M8i-flex: 15% better price-perf, 30% faster PostgreSQL, 60% faster NGINX

Database

Aurora DSQL: Browser playground, Tortoise/Flyway/Prisma integrations, SQLTools/DBeaver drivers
Redshift Serverless: 3-year reservations, up to 45% cost savings
RDS PostgreSQL: Minor versions 18.3, 17.9, 16.13, 15.17, 14.22
CloudWatch Database Insights: Lock contention visualization for PostgreSQL

Storage & Data