This week: ElastiCache adds built-in full-text and vector search with Valkey 9, SageMaker AI introduces agentic model customization that cuts deployment from months to days, and Bedrock AgentCore launches payment capabilities for autonomous AI agents. Plus major IAM quota increases, new M8 and R8 EC2 instances, and the AWS MCP Server goes GA.
Compute
- EC2 I8ge: 60% better compute, 55% better storage/TB, 120TB NVMe, 60% lower IO latency
- EC2 R8idn/R8idb: 43% better compute/vCPU, 600Gbps network, 300Gbps EBS
- EC2 M8idn/M8idb: 43% better compute/vCPU, 600Gbps network, 300Gbps EBS
- RDS SQL Server: M8i/R8i (15% better price-perf), M8a/R8a (70% higher throughput)
AI/ML
- SageMaker AI: Agentic model customization - months to days with coding agents
- Agent Toolkit: 40+ skills, managed MCP server with IAM guardrails (GA)
- AWS MCP Server: GA - any AWS API, sandboxed Python, IAM/CloudTrail integration
- Bedrock AgentCore: Autonomous payments (preview), file system mounts, memory metadata filtering
Analytics
- QuickSight: S3 table buckets direct connect, Dataset Q&A text-to-SQL, NL dashboard generation
- ElastiCache Valkey 9: Full-text/vector hybrid search, 40% higher throughput
- Entity Resolution: Incremental ML matching - 95% faster (1M records/hour vs 2 days)
- OpenSearch: VPC egress for private connections, unused index insights
Storage & Database
- Aurora D-sequel: PostgreSQL JSON type with compression
- RDS SQL Server: Readable replicas on multi-volume instances (256TiB)
Networking
- VPC Lattice: Private domain-name targets via in-VPC DNS resolution
- Site-to-Site VPN: In-place bandwidth tier changes
- Route 53 Resolver: IPv6 DNS64 synthesis, dynamic region management
Security & Identity
- IAM: Doubled quotas - 10K roles/policies/profiles, 700 OIDC providers
- Payment Cryptography: Cross-account key sharing
- JDBC Wrapper: Column-level KMS encryption plugin
Operations
- EventBridge: PutEvents now in CloudTrail
- CloudWatch: Tag-based log group queries, mobile alarm investigation with AI
- Backup for EKS: 10x faster cluster backups
Developer Tools
- SAM: WebSocket API support, BuildKit for container builds
- Neptune: One-click CloudShell connect
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