March 9, 2026

AWS News Mar 02 - Mar 08

Show Notes

This week: Amazon Connect Health launches five AI agents for healthcare workflows, Bedrock AgentCore Policy goes GA with natural language-to-Cedar policy conversion, and SageMaker Unified Studio adds Kiro IDE remote connections plus third-party catalog sync. Plus GameLift gets built-in DDoS protection, EventBridge Scheduler bumps default limits to 5K requests per second, and Database Savings Plans now cover OpenSearch and Neptune Analytics.

Data & Analytics

Redshift: COPY templates for reusable ingestion params; 9 new array functions for SUPER type
Redshift Serverless: Datashare permissions preserved on snapshot restore
Database Savings Plans: Now cover OpenSearch + Neptune Analytics (up to 35% off)
OpenSearch: Capacity Optimized blue/green deployments; O R2/O M2 instances in GovCloud
OpenSearch Ingestion: Single endpoint for all 3 OpenTelemetry signals; Prometheus sink support
SageMaker Unified Studio: Glue 5.1 (Spark 3.5.6, Iceberg 1.10); catalog sync with Atlan/Collibra/Alation; Kiro IDE remote connections; light mode

AI & ML

Bedrock AgentCore Policy: GA - centralized agent-tool access control via natural language → Cedar
HealthLake: AI agent converts CCDA → FHIR R4 in days (preview)
Connect Health: 5 healthcare AI agents GA (verification, scheduling, documentation, coding)
Kiro: Lambda durable functions power for long-running workflow guidance
Elastic Beanstalk: AI-powered health diagnostics via Bedrock

Compute & Infrastructure

EC2 I8ge: Graviton4, 60% better compute, 55% better storage perf vs I4g (EU)
Batch: Configurable instance idle time (20min–1 week)
SageMaker HyperPod: Built-in Grafana observability for Nova Forge training
GameLift: Built-in DDoS protection with relay network (no extra cost)

Security & Management

Config: 30 new resource types (Bedrock AgentCore, Cognito, GameLift, DataBrew)
IAM: In-service role creation panel (EC2, Lambda, EKS, ECS, Glue)
Multi-party approval: Test approval runs to validate approver teams
EventBridge Scheduler: 5K RPS default for CreateSchedule (11 regions)

Developer Tools