March 16, 2026

AWS News Mar 09 - Mar 15

AWS News Mar 09 - Mar 15
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This week: S3 introduces reserved namespaces eliminating the hunt for globally unique bucket names, Route 53 Global Resolver goes GA with anycast DNS and built-in threat filtering, and Bedrock AgentCore adds stateful MCP server support for complex multi-turn workflows. Plus CloudWatch Logs Insights triples concurrent query limits and Neptune gets native spatial data support.

Security & Identity

  • IAM Roles Anywhere: Post-quantum certificates (FIPS 204 ML-DSA)
  • Private CA SCEP: PrivateLink support, no public internet needed
  • WorkSpaces: Windows Server 2025 bundles with TPM 2.0, Secure Boot
  • Backup: Logically air-gapped vaults for EKS clusters
  • Network Firewall: Now in AWS European Sovereign Cloud
  • Firewall Manager: Expands to Asia Pacific New Zealand

AI & ML

  • Bedrock: TimeToFirstToken + EstimatedTPMQuotaUsage metrics
  • Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Stateful MCP servers in isolated microVMs
  • Bedrock AgentCore Memory: Kinesis streaming for memory changes
  • Neptune: Native spatial data support, 11 ISO-standard functions

Analytics & Data

  • CloudWatch Logs Insights: 100 concurrent queries (was 30)
  • OpenSearch: Cross-account queries from single UI
  • OpenSearch: In-place scaling beyond 3TB without blue-green
  • Glue zero-ETL: Configurable CDC intervals (15min-6days) for DynamoDB
  • S3: Buckets in reserved namespace, predictable naming

Networking

  • Route 53 Global Resolver: GA, anycast DNS with threat filtering

Compute & Containers

  • Lambda Managed Instances: Rust support
  • MSK: Graviton3 M7g in Cape Town, 24% cost savings

Contact Center

  • Connect: Email analytics with PII redaction
  • Connect: Natural language queries across 150+ metrics
  • Connect: 40M product catalog items, 14% better accuracy
  • Connect: Case data in analytics data lake
  • Connect: Multi-sender email addresses per queue
  • Connect: In-platform agent coaching workflows

Developer Tools

  • Builder ID: GitHub and Amazon account sign-in
  • CDK Mixins: Composable abstractions with .with() syntax
  • SAM Kiro Power: AI-assisted serverless development
  • Elastic Beanstalk: Real-time deployment logs
  • LZA MCP Server: Natural language infrastructure management
  • SageMaker Studio: 1-second data preview, browser-based ETL

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