June 22, 2026

AWS News Jun 15 - Jun 21

Show Notes

This week: AWS launches Continuum for autonomous security vulnerability management, Bedrock AgentCore reaches GA with built-in guardrails and optimization tools, and S3 Vectors slashes query costs by up to 80%. Plus WAF introduces AI bot monetization, CloudWatch adds cross-account metrics replication, and new Graviton 5-powered M9g database instances deliver 30% better performance.

Compute

EC2 G7: GA, NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell, 4.6x better AI inference vs G6
RDS: M9g instances (Graviton 5), 30% better perf, up to 192 vCPU
RDS X2m: Memory-optimized SQL Server, 50%+ licensing savings, 4TB RAM
Outposts: bmn-cx3a bare-metal, AMD EPYC + 800Gbps networking
ECS: Auto scaling 4x faster with 20-second metric resolution

Storage & Data

S3 Vectors: 80% lower query costs for 10M+ vectors, 10K results/query (100x increase)
S3 Annotations: Up to 1GB JSON/XML/YAML metadata per object
RDS SQL Server: GP3 volumes to 64TiB, 80K IOPS, 2000MB/s (4-5x increase)

AI/ML

Bedrock AgentCore: GA - harness, memory, web search, guardrails integration
Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base: GA, 6 connectors, hybrid search
Bedrock Guardrails: InvokeGuardrailChecks API, Automated Reasoning in Sydney
Glue Catalog: AI-enriched tables with glossary terms, semantic search API

Security

AWS Continuum: Security Agent with simulated exploit validation
Security Agent: AI threat modeling (STRIDE), IDE integration
WAF: Traffic monetization for AI bots via x402 protocol
Route 53: Palo Alto DNS Security integration (preview)
Console Sign-in: Resource-based policies for network restrictions

Observability

CloudWatch: Cross-account metric replication, OpenTelemetry support, Query Studio GA
CloudWatch Log Analytics: Unified Insights/Live Tail/Contributor console
CloudWatch Synthetics: Multi-region canaries from single config

Developer Tools

Blocks: Open-source TypeScript framework, local-to-prod with zero changes
DevOps Agent: Custom SRE agents, headless mode, release management (preview)
Transform: Continuous modernization, mainframe workflows, Bedrock migration assessment

Database