This week: Major GPU upgrades hit SageMaker with P6 Blackwell and P5e H200 instances for AI training, OpenSearch Serverless scales 20x faster with scale-to-zero pricing for agentic workloads, and Claude Opus 4 arrives on Bedrock for complex autonomous coding tasks. Plus Shield Advanced adds packet-level DDoS forensics and SES now shows inbox placement metrics.
Security & Compliance
- GuardDuty: Malware scan for S3 continuous backups, verify clean recovery points
- Shield Advanced: Packet-level DDoS forensics (IPs, ports, protocols) to S3/CloudWatch
- Backup: OTP verification required for multi-party approval on air-gapped vaults
- Organizations: CloudTrail events for account join/leave with change method details
- DynamoDB Streams: PrivateLink FIPS endpoints in GovCloud
AI/ML
- Bedrock: Claude Opus 4.8 for agentic coding, longer autonomous runs
- Neuron 2.30: NKI 0.4 with Trainium 3, 22 new kernels, agentic model porting
- SageMaker notebooks: P6 B200 (8x Blackwell GPUs), P5en, P5, P4de instances
- Elemental Inference: Smart Subtitles - AI real-time captions, multi-language
Database & Analytics
- RDS Multi-AZ: ENA Express replication, 25Gbps single-flow, lower latency
- Aurora MySQL: Kiro integration for natural language DB operations
- EMR: Spark 4.0.2, VARIANT types, Iceberg v3 lineage, Lake Formation RBAC
- Redshift Serverless: 4 RPU minimum ($1.50/hr) in more regions
Networking & Infrastructure
- Interconnect multicloud: Free 500Mbps tier (160TB/month)
- IPAM: Tags on pool allocations for IAM/SCP governance
- IoT Core: Direct messaging API with delivery acknowledgements
OpenSearch & Search
- OpenSearch Serverless: 20x faster scaling, scale-to-zero, 60% cost savings
Contact Center
- Connect Profiles: AI post-contact summaries in 8 language families
- Connect Profiles: GenAI self-service evaluation with custom criteria
- Connect: Task scheduling up to 90 days, tag-based agent report access
Operations
- Resilience Hub: 3-level app model, AI failure assessment, Organizations integration
- SES: Inbox placement metrics, blocklist monitoring, pre-send testing
- Cost Management: Budgets widgets in dashboards
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