AWS News Oct 12 - Oct 18

This week: AWS Lambda launches Web Functions, letting you run Express or Hono apps directly with active-CPU pricing and CloudFront origin support. SageMaker JumpStart adds Meta's Muse Spark Open and Reflection's Beam for agentic coding, Lambda durable functions get 10x more operations, and AWS Transform converts Azure .NET apps to AWS. Plus OpenSearch index-level encryption and S3 on Vercel.

Compute

• Lambda Web Functions: HTTP-native, Express/Hono, pay active CPU only
• Lambda durable: 30K ops (10x), 1MB checkpoints, Go SDK GA
• Lambda: Loop detection for EventBridge custom buses
• Time Sync: Microsecond time on 135 more EC2 types

Security

• OpenSearch: Per-index KMS encryption
• Secrets Manager: Managed rotation for Databricks, Twilio
• Security Hub: Resource criticality; CRI Profile v2.2
• Transfer Family: Custom SFTP ports, host keys in Secrets Manager

AI/ML

• JumpStart: Muse Spark Open (816B MoE), Beam, Nemotron 3.5 Super VL
• SageMaker Studio: Google/GitHub/Apple sign-up, no credit card
• AgentCore: Usage-based STM pricing; Web Search in GovCloud
• Agent Toolkit: SageMaker AI/ML and MWAA skills

Data & Storage

• EMR: Native Spark data quality checks, 30+ rules, free
• DynamoDB Streams: Start reading from timestamp
• DataSync Enhanced: FSx for OpenZFS, NFS 4.2
• S3: On Vercel Marketplace and v0
• RDS Proxy: SQL Server 2022, up to 83% faster failover

Networking

• CloudFront: Lambda Web Functions origin, dual-stack VPC origins
• Oracle Database@AWS: Aggregate/default routes for peering

Operations

• ECS: New free LiveTaskCount; RunningTaskCount now free
• CloudWatch: Conditional log routing, chained parsers
• ElastiCache Valkey: Insights dashboard, 15s metrics
• ARC Region switch: Run Command, quota parity checks
• Resilience Hub: DevOps Agent investigations

Other

• End User Messaging: Managed OTP incl. WhatsApp, Brand Profiles
• Transform: Azure-to-AWS .NET code conversion GA
• HealthOmics: Shared VPCs, 3rd-party registries, GPU fallback
• DCV 2026.0: RHEL 10, Ubuntu 26.04, new macOS client
• Connect: AI-prefilled after-contact guides

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