AWS News Sep 28 - Oct 04

This week: Amazon Bedrock adds Claude Sonnet five point five plus new Grok and OpenAI models, Aurora PostgreSQL can now query Iceberg and Parquet data in S three with no ETL, and EKS gets Kubernetes one point thirty-seven with scale-to-zero autoscaling. Plus Security Hub remediation plans that fix multiple exposures at once, smarter S three Vectors filtering, and service retirements to plan for.

AI & ML

Bedrock: Claude Sonnet 5.5 (incl. GovCloud), Grok 4.7, GPT-6.1 Sol GPT-6 Astra: UltraFast mode, 6x faster (300 tok/s) Databases

Aurora Serverless: Adds 16 ACUs/sec, scales to 256 ACUs Aurora PostgreSQL: Query Iceberg/Parquet via embedded DuckDB DocumentDB 8.0.2: Retryable writes, 5 new aggregation stages RDS/Aurora: R8a and M8a AMD instances ElastiCache Valkey: Serverless public endpoints; 15s OTel metrics DynamoDB: Filtered export to S3 Analytics & Storage

S3 Vectors: Metadata pre-filtering, up to 5x higher recall S3 Tables: All Iceberg V3 types; 100 buckets/Region (10x) Glue: Iceberg V3 optimization; write-protected materialized views EMR Serverless: 1TB shuffle (up from 200GB) Redshift: Cross-Region data lake queries; DEBUG log permission CloudWatch Logs: Auto-indexing; bytes-scanned query estimate Security

Security Hub: Remediation plans grouped by root cause GuardDuty: Org declarative policies; Runtime Monitoring in Security Hub CloudTrail: Event Coverage reveals data event logging gaps Route 53 DNS Firewall: Palo Alto DNS Security GA; DNS analytics IAM Identity Center: Multi-Region in opt-in, GovCloud, China Containers & Compute

EKS 1.37: Metrics API GA, HPA scale-to-zero beta ECS: Blue/green, linear, canary via VPC Lattice WorkSpaces Core: G7 Blackwell GPUs, 2.1x vs G6 Deadline Cloud: ECS containers; job template expressions Lifecycle

Sunset: Managed Blockchain, DevOps Guru (2027) End of support: Mechanical Turk Other

Backup: Air-gapped vaults for FSx for NetApp ONTAP Grafana 13.2: Git Sync, dynamic dashboards SSM / DataSync: RAM org sharing; shared VPC support Transfer Family: Multi-file download; 1,000 connector auto-approval AWS News Feed: Whats new at AWS

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