AWS News Oct 05 - Oct 11

AI & Bedrock

• Nova 2.5 Sonic: GA voice model, better reasoning/tool calls, lower latency
• Claude Haiku 5.5: ~75% cheaper than Haiku 4.5, effort controls (+GovCloud)
• GLM 5.3: 753B MoE, 1M context, 128K output
• GPT-6.1 Sol: Ultrafast mode; reasoning summaries for OpenAI models
• TwelveLabs Pegasus 1.5: Video-to-text with time-coded metadata
• Kiro GovCloud: Opus 5.5 (half the tokens) & Sonnet 5.5 (30% faster)
• Strands Bidi Agents: GA for production voice agents

Security & Compliance

• GuardDuty: RDS Protection detects exfiltration/destruction in PostgreSQL
• Client VPN: Device posture checks (CrowdStrike, Jamf, JumpCloud)
• Continuum for Pentesting: CI/CD pentest integration (preview)
• Private CA: Detailed issuance logs in CloudTrail, incl. failures
• ACM: ACME certificate issuance via PrivateLink
• IAM Identity Center: Network access controls for Identity Store/SCIM
• Security Hub: Export findings to S3 (CSV/OCSF JSON)
• Network Firewall: Wildcard container attribute filters
• Lambda: OAuth auth for self-managed Kafka event sources

Data & Databases

• Redshift: Create/refresh Iceberg materialized views
• Ruby Driver Wrapper: GA, faster RDS/Aurora failover & switchover
• RDS Oracle: Upgrade prechecks + early reconnect event

Compute & Containers

• EC2 C8gb: 30% faster than Graviton3, 300 Gbps EBS, 7 more regions
• EC2 AMIs: Shared tags visible to recipient accounts
• Batch: CloudWatch job metrics, EKS access entry auth
• GameLift: CPU burstability for container fleets

Management & Cost

• Cost Explorer/Budgets: Bedrock costs by model, provider, inference type
• Config: 77 new resource types
• Control Tower AFT: Plan-only Terraform runs
• SageMaker Unified Studio: Custom CloudFormation tooling blueprints
• Capabilities by Region: Feature-level availability alerts
• Quick: Brand templates for docs/presentations
• Connect: AI checks for evaluation forms

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