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AWS Debuts DevOps Agent Preview for Operational Excellence

🔧 AWS announced the preview of AWS DevOps Agent, a frontier agent designed to investigate incidents and proactively prevent outages across AWS, multicloud, and hybrid environments. The agent autonomously triages alerts, correlates telemetry, code, and deployment data, and guides teams to faster resolution to reduce MTTR. During preview it is available at no additional cost in US East (N. Virginia).

AWS AI Factories: Dedicated High-Performance AI Infrastructure

🚀 AWS AI Factories are now available to deploy high-performance AWS AI infrastructure inside customer data centers, combining AWS Trainium, NVIDIA GPUs, low-latency networking, and optimized storage. The service integrates Amazon Bedrock and Amazon SageMaker to provide immediate access to foundation models without separate provider contracts. AWS manages procurement, setup, and operations while customers supply space and power, enabling isolated, sovereign deployments that accelerate AI initiatives.

Amazon EC2 Trn3 UltraServers for Faster AI Training

🚀 AWS announced general availability of Amazon EC2 Trn3 UltraServers, powered by the new 3nm Trainium3 AI chip designed to deliver improved token economics for agentic, reasoning, and video-generation workloads. Each Trainium3 chip provides 2.52 PFLOPs (FP8), 144 GB of HBM3e, and 4.9 TB/s memory bandwidth, and servers can scale to 144 chips or to hundreds of thousands via EC2 UltraClusters. The platform includes the AWS Neuron SDK with native PyTorch integration so developers can train and deploy without changing model code, while performance engineers gain deeper access to tune kernels and optimize at scale.

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Adds Policy and Evaluations

🛡️ Amazon Web Services' AgentCore introduces preview features — Policy and Evaluations — to help teams scale agents from prototypes into production. Policy intercepts real-time tool calls via AgentCore Gateway and converts natural-language rules into Cedar for auditability and compliance without custom code. Evaluations offers 13 built-in evaluators plus custom model-based scoring, with all quality metrics surfaced in an Amazon CloudWatch dashboard to simplify continuous testing and monitoring.

Amazon Nova Act: Automate Production UI Workflows at Scale

🚀 AWS announced general availability of Amazon Nova Act, a service for building and managing fleets of reliable agents that automate production UI workflows. Powered by a custom Nova 2 Lite model, Nova Act can complete repetitive browser tasks, call APIs or tools, and escalate to human supervisors when needed. Developers can combine natural language with deterministic Python, prototype in the online playground, refine scripts with the Nova Act IDE extension, and deploy to AWS quickly. Nova Act is available today in US East (N. Virginia).

Amazon S3 Tables: Automatic Cross-Region Iceberg Replication

🔁 Amazon S3 Tables now support automatic replication of Apache Iceberg tables across AWS Regions and accounts, duplicating full table structure, snapshots, and metadata to destination buckets. The feature creates read-only replica tables, backfills them to the source's latest state, and continuously monitors for updates while allowing independent snapshot retention and encryption settings per replica. Replicas are queryable with Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio or any Iceberg-compatible engine such as Amazon Athena, Amazon Redshift, Apache Spark, and DuckDB. This capability is available in all Regions where S3 Tables are supported.

AWS GuardDuty extends threat detection for EC2 and ECS

🔍 AWS announced an update to GuardDuty Extended Threat Detection that adds multistage attack detection for Amazon EC2 instances and Amazon ECS clusters running on Fargate or EC2. The release introduces two critical findings — AttackSequence:EC2/CompromisedInstanceGroup and AttackSequence:ECS/CompromisedCluster — that group related events into a single, high-priority alert. Findings include a summary, event timeline, MITRE ATT&CK mappings, and remediation guidance to speed response. Runtime Monitoring must be enabled for full coverage, and customers can try the feature free for 30 days.

Mistral Large 3 and Ministral 3 Now on Amazon Bedrock

🚀 Amazon Bedrock now offers Mistral Large 3 and the Ministral 3 family alongside additional Mistral AI checkpoints, giving customers early access to open-weight multimodal models. Mistral Large 3 employs a granular Mixture-of-Experts architecture with 41B active and 675B total parameters and supports a 256K context window for long-form comprehension and agentic workflows. The Ministral 3 series (14B, 8B, 3B) plus Voxtral and Magistral small models let developers choose scales optimized for production assistants, RAG systems, single-GPU edge deployment, or low-resource environments.

Amazon Nova Forge: Build Frontier Models with Nova

🚀 Amazon Web Services announced general availability of Nova Forge, a SageMaker AI service that enables organizations to build custom frontier models from Nova checkpoints across pre-, mid-, and post-training phases. Developers can blend proprietary data with Amazon-curated datasets, run Reinforcement Fine Tuning (RFT) with in-environment reward functions, and apply custom safety guardrails via a built-in responsible AI toolkit. Nova Forge includes early access to Nova 2 Pro and Nova 2 Omni and is available today in US East (N. Virginia).

AWS launches Database Savings Plans for databases worldwide

🚀 Today AWS introduced Database Savings Plans, a flexible pricing model that offers up to 35% savings in exchange for a one-year commitment measured in $/hour with no upfront payment. Discounts apply automatically to eligible serverless and provisioned usage across engines, instance families, sizes, deployment options, and Regions. The offer supports Amazon Aurora, Amazon RDS, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon ElastiCache, Amazon DocumentDB, Amazon Neptune, Amazon Keyspaces, Amazon Timestream, and AWS DMS. Database Savings Plans are available now in all AWS Regions except China and can be purchased from the Billing console or via the AWS CLI.

AWS previews EC2 C8ine instances for packet processing

🚀 Amazon Web Services previewed EC2 C8ine instances built on custom sixth-generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors (Granite Rapids) and the new Nitro v6 card. These instances are optimized for dataplane packet-processing workloads and can deliver up to 2.5× higher packet performance per vCPU versus prior C6in instances, with up to 2× higher internet-gateway bandwidth and up to 3× more ENIs. Targeted use cases include security virtual appliances, firewalls, load balancers, DDoS protection systems, and Telco 5G UPF. Preview access is available upon request through your AWS account team.

Amazon EMR Serverless Removes Local Storage Provisioning

🚀 Amazon EMR Serverless now provides fully managed serverless local storage for Apache Spark workloads, removing the need to provision disk type or size per application. The service offloads intermediate operations such as shuffle to an auto-scaling, encrypted serverless storage with job-level isolation, so customers pay only for compute and memory consumed. This reduces disk-related job failures and can lower costs by up to 20%. It is generally available for EMR release 7.12 and later.

Amazon OpenSearch: GPU-Accelerated Auto-Optimized Vectors

🚀Amazon OpenSearch Service now offers GPU-accelerated, auto-optimized vector indexes that let teams build billion-scale vector databases in under an hour. Serverless GPU acceleration can speed index builds up to 10X while reducing indexing cost to roughly a quarter of previous expenses. Auto-optimize jobs evaluate k-NN algorithms, quantization, and engine settings against specified latency and recall targets to produce configuration recommendations without manual tuning. These capabilities support vector collections and OpenSearch 2.17+/3.1+ domains across multiple regions.

AWS Lambda Durable Functions for Multi‑Step Workflows

🔁 AWS announced Lambda durable functions, a built-in capability for authoring reliable multi-step applications and AI workflows within the Lambda developer experience. Durable functions automatically checkpoint execution, can suspend runs for up to one year, and recover from failures without requiring additional infrastructure. New primitives like steps and waits let developers pause and resume logic without incurring compute charges, while the service handles state and error recovery so teams can focus on business logic.

AWS Support transforms support with AI-driven plans

🤖 AWS Support has restructured its support portfolio into three AI-driven plans: Business Support+, Enterprise Support, and Unified Operations. Each tier layers faster response times, proactive guidance, and AI-assisted operations while combining generative AI with AWS engineering expertise. Highlights include 24/7 contextual AI assistance, designated TAMs, integrated security incident response, and the preview AWS DevOps Agent for one-click context sharing and proactive incident prevention. These plans are available in all commercial AWS Regions.

Amazon S3 Vectors GA: Scalable, Cost‑Optimized Vector Store

🚀 Amazon S3 Vectors is now generally available, delivering native, purpose-built vector storage and query capabilities in cloud object storage. It supports up to two billion vectors per index, 10,000 indexes per vector bucket, and offers up to 90% lower costs to upload, store, and query vectors. S3 Vectors integrates with Amazon Bedrock, SageMaker Unified Studio, and OpenSearch Service, supports SSE-S3 and optional SSE-KMS encryption with per-index keys, and provides tagging for ABAC and cost allocation.

Amazon Bedrock Adds 18 Fully Managed Open Models Today

🚀 Amazon Bedrock expanded its model catalog with 18 new fully managed open-weight models, the largest single addition to date. The offering includes Gemma 3, Mistral Large 3, NVIDIA Nemotron Nano 2, OpenAI gpt-oss variants and other vendor models. Through a unified API, developers can evaluate, switch, and adopt these models in production without rewriting applications or changing infrastructure. Models are available in supported AWS Regions.

Amazon S3 Raises Maximum Object Size to 50 TB Globally

📦 Amazon S3 now supports individual objects up to 50 TB, a 10× increase over the previous 5 TB limit. The change applies across all S3 storage classes and AWS Regions, enabling single-file storage of very large assets such as high-resolution video, seismic datasets, and AI training corpora. Use the AWS Common Runtime (CRT) and S3 Transfer Manager in the AWS SDK to optimize uploads and downloads; standard S3 features like S3 Lifecycle and S3 Replication continue to operate on these large objects.

Amazon S3 Batch Operations: Up to 10x Faster at Scale

⚡Amazon S3 Batch Operations now finishes jobs up to 10x faster and supports jobs that include up to 20 billion objects, accelerating large-scale storage tasks. S3 pre-processes objects, runs operations, and generates completion reports with no extra configuration or cost. Typical uses include copying between buckets, tagging for lifecycle policies, and computing checksums. The upgrade is available in all AWS Regions except China and GovCloud (US).

AWS Security Hub Adds Near Real-Time Risk Analytics

🔒 AWS announces general availability of AWS Security Hub, adding near real-time risk analytics, advanced trends, unified enablement, and streamlined pricing across AWS security services. Security Hub correlates and enriches signals from Amazon GuardDuty, Amazon Inspector, and AWS Security Hub CSPM to surface and prioritize active risks. Centralized deployment across AWS Organizations, attack-path visualization, and automated workflows reduce manual correlation and speed remediation at scale.