This week: S3 introduces reserved namespaces eliminating the hunt for globally unique bucket names, Route 53 Global Resolver goes GA with anycast DNS and built-in threat filtering, and Bedrock AgentCore adds stateful MCP server support for complex multi-turn workflows. Plus CloudWatch Logs Insights triples concurrent query limits and Neptune gets native spatial data support.
Security & Identity
- IAM Roles Anywhere: Post-quantum certificates (FIPS 204 ML-DSA)
- Private CA SCEP: PrivateLink support, no public internet needed
- WorkSpaces: Windows Server 2025 bundles with TPM 2.0, Secure Boot
- Backup: Logically air-gapped vaults for EKS clusters
- Network Firewall: Now in AWS European Sovereign Cloud
- Firewall Manager: Expands to Asia Pacific New Zealand
AI & ML
- Bedrock: TimeToFirstToken + EstimatedTPMQuotaUsage metrics
- Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Stateful MCP servers in isolated microVMs
- Bedrock AgentCore Memory: Kinesis streaming for memory changes
- Neptune: Native spatial data support, 11 ISO-standard functions
Analytics & Data
- CloudWatch Logs Insights: 100 concurrent queries (was 30)
- OpenSearch: Cross-account queries from single UI
- OpenSearch: In-place scaling beyond 3TB without blue-green
- Glue zero-ETL: Configurable CDC intervals (15min-6days) for DynamoDB
- S3: Buckets in reserved namespace, predictable naming
Networking
- Route 53 Global Resolver: GA, anycast DNS with threat filtering
Compute & Containers
- Lambda Managed Instances: Rust support
- MSK: Graviton3 M7g in Cape Town, 24% cost savings
Contact Center
- Connect: Email analytics with PII redaction
- Connect: Natural language queries across 150+ metrics
- Connect: 40M product catalog items, 14% better accuracy
- Connect: Case data in analytics data lake
- Connect: Multi-sender email addresses per queue
- Connect: In-platform agent coaching workflows
Developer Tools
- Builder ID: GitHub and Amazon account sign-in
- CDK Mixins: Composable abstractions with .with() syntax
- SAM Kiro Power: AI-assisted serverless development
- Elastic Beanstalk: Real-time deployment logs
- LZA MCP Server: Natural language infrastructure management
- SageMaker Studio: 1-second data preview, browser-based ETL
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