AWS News Jun 08 - Jun 14

This week: New Graviton5-powered M9g instances deliver 25% better compute with mathematically proven workload isolation, Claude Fable 5 brings autonomous AI agents to Bedrock, and Amazon Q now explains your cost anomalies and spending patterns in plain language. Plus Lambda Managed Instances hit most regions, CloudWatch Logs gets 23 new query commands, and VPC Flow Logs now captures resource tags directly.

Analytics & Data

Redshift: Snapshot billing now based on unique blocks, not total size Aurora DSequel: JSONB support with default compression DocumentDB 5.0.1: New aggregation operators, command-level CloudWatch metrics Aurora PostgreSQL 18.3: B-tree skip scans, parallel large transaction replication OpenSearch: MCP Apps for AI agents to query logs/traces/metrics Compute

EC2 M9g/M9gd: Graviton5, 25% better performance, first Nitro Isolation Engine EC2 M8i/R8i: Bare metal sizes with 600Gbps network, 300Gbps EBS Lambda Managed Instances: EC2 pricing models for steady-state workloads ECS Managed Daemons: Inter-task visibility via pid/ipc mode settings AI/ML

Bedrock: Claude Fable 5 (Mythos-class), Gemma 4 family (3 variants, 256K context) SageMaker: Serverless fine-tuning for Nemotron 3 Nano (30B params) EMR Serverless: Spark Connect interactive sessions QuickSight: Snowflake Cortex AI integration via MCP Cost & Observtic

Cost Anomaly Detection: Amazon Q explains spending with CloudTrail correlation Cost Explorer: Q Developer integration for one-click spend analysis Compute Optimizer: Idle detection for 6 more services (DynamoDB, ElastiCache, etc.) Savings Plans Analyzer: Set coverage targets, compare scenarios CUR 2.0: Update table configs without recreating exports Observability

CloudWatch Logs Insights: 23 new commands (hash, CSV/XML parsing, histograms) VPC Flow Logs: EC2 tags and next-hop metadata captured directly Application Signals: Health-ranked service maps, infra/logs/traces tabs Prometheus: Native histograms, out-of-order sample ingestion Migration & Management

Application Migration Service: Renamed to Transform MGN Lake Formation: S3 file access using table permissions Workload Credentials Provider: Open source cert/secrets automation MWAA Serverless: EventBridge events for workflow state changes AWS News Feed: Whats new at AWS

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