This week: AWS Transform adds containerized migration and an agentic AI assistant for .NET developers, Claude Platform launches as GA making AWS the first cloud to offer Anthropic's native experience, and EC2 M3 Ultra Mac instances bring Mac Studio hardware to the cloud. Plus CloudFormation's new cross-account output references, major SageMaker GPU instance expansions, and Organizations doubles SCP limits.
Migration & Modernization
- Transform: Containerizes apps, generates Dockerfiles, Terraform, Helm charts
- Transform: Agentic AI assistant for .NET modernization in VS Toolkit
- Transform: Agent builder toolkit for custom modernization agents
- Transform: BYOB S3 storage with KMS encryption
AI/ML
- Claude Platform: GA on AWS - first cloud with native Anthropic experience via IAM
- SageMaker: P6b200 instances (8 Blackwell GPUs, 1400GB HBM), 2x perf vs P5en
- SageMaker: Serverless fine-tuning for Qwen 3.6 (27B params)
- SageMaker Data Agent: IAM Identity Center support, generates Python/SQL from English
- SageMaker Feature Store: Python SDK v3 with Lake Formation access controls
- Bedrock: Advanced Prompt Optimization - compare across 5 models, multimodal support
- Security Agent: Full repo code review, reasons about architecture and trust boundaries
Compute & Networking
- EC2 M3 Ultra Mac: GA - M3 Ultra chip, 28-core CPU, 256GB unified memory
- ENA Express: 25Gbps cross-AZ (was 5Gbps)
- Karpenter: ARC zonal shift integration for EKS
- Redshift RG: Graviton-powered, 2.4x faster, 30% lower cost, built-in data lake engine
Database & Storage
- Aurora D-sequel: CDC preview - streams changes to Kinesis
- RDS Oracle: M8i/R8i with Standard Edition License Included
- FSx OpenZFS: Multi-AZ in shared VPCs for participant accounts
Serverless & Events
- Lambda: Scheduled scaling via EventBridge Scheduler
- EventBridge Scheduler: 13 new services, 600+ API actions, 270+ total
- ARC Region Switch: Automates Lambda event source failover
Networking & Security
- CloudFront: Premium tiers now self-service (500M-6B requests)
- CloudFront: OCSP revocation checking and mTLS passthrough mode
- WAF: Dynamic label interpolation, synthetic labels for IP/JA3/JA4
- Organizations: 2x SCP limits (10 per node, 10K chars)
- CloudFormation: Fn::GetStackOutput for cross-account/region refs
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