AWS News Feb 23 - Mar 01

This week: Graviton 4 bare-metal instances arrive with M8gn delivering 600 Gbps networking, Amazon Q Developer now generates visual charts and tables directly in the console, and WAF adds an AI activity dashboard tracking over 650 bots and agents. Plus Aurora DSQL gets a browser playground, Bedrock handles tool execution server-side, and EKS Node Monitoring Agent goes open source. AI & Machine Learning Bedrock: Automated Reasoning links rules to source docs; 99% hallucination detection Bedrock: Server-side tool execution via AgentCore Gateway, no client orchestration Bedrock: Batch inference supports Converse API for model-agnostic prompts Bedrock Mantle: OpenAI-compatible Projects API for isolated team environments Elemental Inference: AI-powered landscape-to-vertical video conversion in real-time WAF: AI activity dashboard, 650+ bot/agent detection catalog Compute & Instances EC2 M8gn/M8gb metal: 30% better compute vs Graviton3, up to 600Gbps network EC2 I8g metal: 60% better compute, 65% better storage perf, 50% lower latency EC2 M8i/M8i-flex: 15% better price-perf, 30% faster PostgreSQL, 60% faster NGINX Database Aurora DSQL: Browser playground, Tortoise/Flyway/Prisma integrations, SQLTools/DBeaver drivers Redshift Serverless: 3-year reservations, up to 45% cost savings RDS PostgreSQL: Minor versions 18.3, 17.9, 16.13, 15.17, 14.22 CloudWatch Database Insights: Lock contention visualization for PostgreSQL Storage & Data S3: Access logs now include source region MediaConvert: Free Probe API for metadata analysis without processing Compute Optimizer: Auto-tags EBS snapshots from deleted volumes Developer Tools Q Developer: Visual artifacts (tables, charts) in console Kiro: IAM Policy Autopilot power, AWS Observability power (4 MCP servers) Location Service: AI agent context for Kiro/Claude Code/Cursor EKS Node Monitoring Agent: Now open source on GitHub Operations & Security Trusted Advisor: Enhanced NAT Gateway detection via Compute Optimizer Security Hub Extended: GA, pay-as-you-go partner security solutions Cognito: Client secret rotation, custom secrets, zero-downtime transitions Network Firewall: Real-time EventBridge notifications VPC pen testing: Cross-account testing via RAM 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