AWS News Dec 22 - Dec 28

This week: NVIDIA Nemotron Nano arrives on Bedrock with 256k context and native tool calling, Neuron SDK adds Trainium 3 UltraServer support with open-source compiler tools, and GameLift Streams launches Gen 6 stream classes with up to 2x performance gains. Plus ECS Service Connect now captures Envoy access logs and Secrets Manager finally lets you sort secrets by name or date. AI & Machine Learning Neuron SDK 2.27: Trainium 3 UltraServer support, Neuron Explorer, open-source MLIR compiler, native PyTorch via TorchNeuron Bedrock: Nemotron 3 Nano 30B, 256k context, hybrid MoE, Project Mantle distributed inference SageMaker: MiniMax M2, 230B params (10B active), elite coding/agentic performance Compute & Containers ECS Service Connect: Envoy access logs for service mesh traffic, query string redaction, HTTP/gRPC/TCP Database & Analytics Redshift: Materialized views from multiple warehouses, build on shared views, auto-scale creation RDS MySQL 9.5: Innovation Release in preview environment, 60-day retention Storage & Migration Storage Gateway: Nutanix AHV hypervisor support joins VMware/Hyper-V/KVM Transform: Auto network conversion for hybrid migrations, VLAN-to-VPC mapping Media & Gaming GameLift Streams: Gen6 L4 GPUs (2x perf), 7 tiers, warm buffer autoscaling GameLift Streams: Real-time CPU/GPU/memory stats per session, termination diagnostics Deadline Cloud Monitor: Submit render jobs from desktop UI, no CLI needed Messaging & Communication Wickr: Admin APIs for user lifecycle, retention policies, security group automation End User Messaging SMS: GenAI registration reviewer (preview) for carrier submissions Kinesis Video Streams: IPv6 WebRTC via dual-stack endpoints Security & Identity Secrets Manager: Sort by name, last changed/accessed, creation date WorkSpaces Secure Browser: WebAuthn redirect for FIDO2/passkeys/biometrics End User Computing WorkSpaces Secure Browser: Custom branding, logos, ToS acknowledgment, WCAG 2.0 AA Research & Engineering Studio 2025.12: Tag propagation, optional domain join, default schedules Contact Center Connect: Auto evaluations now in Portuguese, French, Italian, German, Spanish Regional MSK Provisioned: Asia Pacific New Zealand, Standard + Express brokers AWS News Feed: Whats new at AWS For Expert Support with your AWS Infrastructure check out theserverlessway.com For detailed show notes check out awsnewsweekly.com