AWS News Mar 16 - Mar 22

This week: Amazon Bedrock adds NVIDIA Nemotron, GLM 5, and Minimax M2.5 models for agentic AI workloads, while AgentCore Runtime gains shell command execution and WebRTC streaming. Amazon Redshift delivers up to 7x faster dashboard queries with new compilation optimization. Plus EKS Provisioned clusters get 99.99% SLA, Lambda functions can now discover their Availability Zone, and OpenSearch 3.5 brings persistent memory for AI agents.

Connect & Contact Center

• Connect: Email forwarding to external addresses, 9 new TTS voices, 13 new locales, London for voice AI
• Connect Agents: Voice AI adapts tone/pacing to customer sentiment in real-time

Data & Analytics

• SimpleDB: Export to S3 in JSON, cross-region/account, free tool
• Neptune: Query S3 directly from openCypher without loading
• Timestream InfluxDB 3: Clusters up to 15 nodes, dynamic scaling
• Glue Data Catalog: IAM auth for S3 Tables and Iceberg views
• Redshift: 7x faster first-run queries, federated IAM Identity Center multi-region
• OpenSearch 3.5: Persistent memory for agents, MCP integration, LLM-powered tuning

Compute & Containers

• SageMaker HyperPod: Borrow idle GPU capacity beyond quotas
• SageMaker Training Plans: Extend GPU reservations 1-14 days
• Lambda: AZ discovery via metadata endpoint for zone-aware routing
• EC2 Fleet: Target interruptible Capacity Reservations in templates
• EKS Provisioned: 99.99% SLA, new 8XL tier doubles 4XL capacity
• ECR: Chainguard pull-through cache support

AI/ML & Bedrock

• Bedrock AgentCore: Shell commands in sessions, WebRTC streaming
• Bedrock Models: NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super, GLM 5, Minimax M2.5
• Partner Central: Bedrock agents for co-selling automation
• NVIDIA NIXL: EFA support for disaggregated LLM inference
• Neuron DRA: K8s-native scheduling for Trainium

Monitoring & Security

• CloudWatch Logs: HTTP ingestion with bearer tokens, 4 formats
• CloudWatch: Org-wide EC2 detailed monitoring rules
• Config: 75 new managed rules
• Inspector: Agentless Windows CVE scanning, consolidated KB findings
• Security Agent: PDF pentest reports with filtering

Database & Storage

• RDS SQL Server Dev: Additional volumes (256 TiB), Resource Governor
• RDS Custom SQL Server: View/schedule OS updates
• DataSync: Secrets Manager for all location types

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