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EPISODE · Apr 13, 2026 · 16 MIN

AWS News Apr 06 - Apr 12

from AWS News Weekly

This week: S3 Files transforms buckets into fully-featured file systems accessible from EC2, Lambda, and containers without data duplication. Lambda response streaming reaches all commercial regions for faster LLM apps, and Cost Explorer adds natural language queries powered by Amazon Q. Plus Bedrock's Claude Mythos Preview for cybersecurity and EKS warm pools for rapid scaling. Storage S3 Files: Mount buckets as file systems on EC2/Lambda/containers, EFS-backed low-latency S3: SSE-C disabled by default for new buckets; S3 Lifecycle: Auto-pauses expiration on failed replication objects AI/ML Bedrock: Claude Mythos Preview (gated); IAM user/role cost tracking Bedrock AgentCore Browser: OS-level automation (mouse, keyboard, system dialogs) Cost Explorer: Natural language queries via Amazon Q SageMaker Studio: Serverless Apache Airflow workflows; notebook import/export Compute Lambda: Response streaming now in all commercial regions (200MB payloads) EKS: Warm pools for managed node groups EC2 Capacity Manager: Tag-based metric grouping (5 custom keys) Database RDS Blue/Green: Proxy integration for faster switchover RDS Oracle: M8i/R8i instances (15% better price-perf); Oracle Management Agent 24.1 RDS SQL Server: Latest CU/security patches (2 CVEs) Aurora PostgreSQL: Versions 17.9, 16.13, 15.17, 14.22 OpenSearch Serverless: Zstandard compression (32% smaller indexes) OpenSearch: Graviton4 i8ge instances (60% better compute); unified observability Networking & Security ACM: Search certificates by domain/ARN/status Transfer Family: IPv6 support for SFTP/AS2 connectors Route 53 GovCloud: DNS delegation for private hosted zones Private CA: Custom RAM permissions for cross-account sharing Developer Tools Smithy-Java GA: Type-safe clients, Java 21 virtual threads Greengrass SDK: C/C++/Rust support ( Verified Permissions: Human-readable policy store aliases End User Computing WorkSpaces: Unique DNS per PrivateLink endpoint; AI-powered Advisor Other Braket: Rigetti 108-qubit processor IVS: Redundant ingest with failover Backup: FSx support in 5 new regions CloudWatch Pipelines: Conditional processing, keep-original for compliance AWS News Feed: Whats new at AWS For help with your AWS Infrastructure check out flomotlik.me or email [email protected] For detailed show notes check out awsnewsweekly.com

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