This week: OpenAI's GPT 5.5 and Codex land on Amazon Bedrock with full pricing parity, Cognito adds multi-region replication for resilient authentication, and ECS on Fargate scales up to 32 vCPUs for demanding workloads. Plus Bedrock AgentCore gets interactive terminal access for debugging AI agents, and the AWS MCP Server now supports multi-account workflows in a single session.
Email & Messaging
- SES: Per-tenant suppression lists for bounce/complaint isolation
AI/ML - Bedrock
- Bedrock: OpenAI GPT-5.5, GPT-5.4, Codex now GA
- Bedrock: CloudWatch metrics for OpenAI/Anthropic endpoints
- Bedrock: GPT-5.4 in GovCloud US West
- Bedrock AgentCore: BYOS from Secrets Manager with custom KMS/rotation
- Bedrock AgentCore: Interactive terminal access to agent sessions
- Bedrock Console: Redesigned with unified catalog, project-aware docs
AI/ML - SageMaker
- HyperPod: EFA-only interfaces (no IP consumption for large clusters)
- HyperPod: AI coding assistant troubleshooting (Claude Code, Cursor, Kiro)
- Unified Studio: Custom IAM permissions boundaries for SCP compliance
- Unified Studio: 12 languages, quick setup under 20 seconds
- Unified Studio: Schedule notebook runs with AI troubleshooting
- Data Agent: Conversation history, Catalog business context integration
- SageMaker AI: Multi-turn RL for agentic fine-tuning (serverless)
Compute & Containers
- ECS: Trainium/Inferentia support for Managed Instances
- ECS Fargate: 32 vCPU tasks with up to 244GB memory
- EKS: Kubernetes 1.36 (User Namespaces GA, in-place vertical scaling)
- EKS: CloudWatch Vended Logs for managed controllers
- PCS: Deep Learning AMI on Ubuntu 24.04 with NVIDIA/EFA/Lustre
Networking & Storage
- Direct Connect: Per-VIF bandwidth limits (50Mbps-1.6Tbps)
- ElastiCache Valkey: Sync/async durability for data persistence
Database
- RDS SQL Server: Bring Your Own Media for license mobility
- RDS DB2: Version 12.1 with free Community Edition
- Keyspaces: CDC iterator position for adaptive polling
Analytics & BI
- QuickSight: Private VPC-hosted MCP server connections
- Q Research: Customer-managed KMS encryption
- CUR 2.0: Direct Athena/Redshift integration, no ETL
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