AWS News Mar 30 - Apr 05

This week: AWS announces lifecycle changes for several services including App Runner and Audit Manager entering maintenance mode, Amazon Security Agent brings autonomous penetration testing to GA, and DevOps Agent launches for automated incident resolution. Plus CloudWatch gets native OpenTelemetry support with PromQL querying, S3 Vectors expands to 31 regions, and Direct Connect adds CloudFormation support.

Compute & Containers

• ECS Managed Daemons: Deploy security/observability agents independently, one per instance, runs before app tasks
• ECS Managed Instances: Instance store volumes for containers, reduces costs vs EBS
• Lightsail: Compute-optimized bundles up to 72 vCPUs for batch/ML/gaming

Database & Storage

• S3 Vectors: Expands to 31 regions, 2B vectors/index, 100ms latency
• Aurora DSQL: Official .NET and Rust connectors with IAM auth
• RDS Oracle on Outposts: Fully managed on-prem with Multi-AZ across racks
• Oracle Database@AWS: Sub-millisecond latency networking for Exadata migrations

AI/ML

• Amazon Security Agent GA: Autonomous pen testing across AWS/Azure/GCP/on-prem
• DevOps Agent GA: Resolves incidents, learns apps, cuts MTTR to minutes
• Bedrock AgentCore Evaluations: 13 built-in evaluators, CI/CD integration
• Bedrock Guardrails: Cross-account safeguards from central management
• Transform Custom GA: Codebase analysis for 1M+ LOC, 7 managed transformations
• OpenSearch: Agentic AI for log analytics, natural language queries

Networking

• Direct Connect: CloudWatch BGP metrics, CloudFormation support, 100Gbps in NZ
• CloudFront: BYOIP IPv6 via IPAM, SHA-256 signed URLs

Observability

• CloudWatch: Native OTLP metrics, Query Studio with PromQL, auto-enable logging
• CloudWatch Logs: Lookup command for enrichment, Security Hub CSPM ingestion
• Container Insights: OTel metrics for EKS, 150 labels, GPU/Trainium detection

Security & Compliance

• Private CA: CloudWatch utilization metrics
• Sustainability Console: Carbon emissions data without billing permissions

Messaging

• End User Messaging: RCS for Business with SMS fallback
• End User Messaging Notify: OTP in minutes, 200+ countries

Service Lifecycle

• Maintenance mode Apr 2026: App Runner, Audit Manager, CloudTrail Lake, IoT FleetWise
• Sunset planned: RDS Custom for Oracle, WorkMail, WorkSpaces Thin Client

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