Oct. 5, 2026

AWS News Sep 28 - Oct 04

AWS News Sep 28 - Oct 04
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This week: Amazon Bedrock adds Claude Sonnet five point five plus new Grok and OpenAI models, Aurora PostgreSQL can now query Iceberg and Parquet data in S three with no ETL, and EKS gets Kubernetes one point thirty-seven with scale-to-zero autoscaling. Plus Security Hub remediation plans that fix multiple exposures at once, smarter S three Vectors filtering, and service retirements to plan for.

AI & ML

  • Bedrock: Claude Sonnet 5.5 (incl. GovCloud), Grok 4.7, GPT-6.1 Sol
  • GPT-6 Astra: UltraFast mode, 6x faster (300 tok/s)

Databases

  • Aurora Serverless: Adds 16 ACUs/sec, scales to 256 ACUs
  • Aurora PostgreSQL: Query Iceberg/Parquet via embedded DuckDB
  • DocumentDB 8.0.2: Retryable writes, 5 new aggregation stages
  • RDS/Aurora: R8a and M8a AMD instances
  • ElastiCache Valkey: Serverless public endpoints; 15s OTel metrics
  • DynamoDB: Filtered export to S3

Analytics & Storage

  • S3 Vectors: Metadata pre-filtering, up to 5x higher recall
  • S3 Tables: All Iceberg V3 types; 100 buckets/Region (10x)
  • Glue: Iceberg V3 optimization; write-protected materialized views
  • EMR Serverless: 1TB shuffle (up from 200GB)
  • Redshift: Cross-Region data lake queries; DEBUG log permission
  • CloudWatch Logs: Auto-indexing; bytes-scanned query estimate

Security

  • Security Hub: Remediation plans grouped by root cause
  • GuardDuty: Org declarative policies; Runtime Monitoring in Security Hub
  • CloudTrail: Event Coverage reveals data event logging gaps
  • Route 53 DNS Firewall: Palo Alto DNS Security GA; DNS analytics
  • IAM Identity Center: Multi-Region in opt-in, GovCloud, China

Containers & Compute

  • EKS 1.37: Metrics API GA, HPA scale-to-zero beta
  • ECS: Blue/green, linear, canary via VPC Lattice
  • WorkSpaces Core: G7 Blackwell GPUs, 2.1x vs G6
  • Deadline Cloud: ECS containers; job template expressions

Lifecycle

  • Sunset: Managed Blockchain, DevOps Guru (2027)
  • End of support: Mechanical Turk

Other

  • Backup: Air-gapped vaults for FSx for NetApp ONTAP
  • Grafana 13.2: Git Sync, dynamic dashboards
  • SSM / DataSync: RAM org sharing; shared VPC support
  • Transfer Family: Multi-file download; 1,000 connector auto-approval

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