AWS News Mar 09 - Mar 15

This week: S3 introduces reserved namespaces eliminating the hunt for globally unique bucket names, Route 53 Global Resolver goes GA with anycast DNS and built-in threat filtering, and Bedrock AgentCore adds stateful MCP server support for complex multi-turn workflows. Plus CloudWatch Logs Insights triples concurrent query limits and Neptune gets native spatial data support. Security & Identity IAM Roles Anywhere: Post-quantum certificates (FIPS 204 ML-DSA) Private CA SCEP: PrivateLink support, no public internet needed WorkSpaces: Windows Server 2025 bundles with TPM 2.0, Secure Boot Backup: Logically air-gapped vaults for EKS clusters Network Firewall: Now in AWS European Sovereign Cloud Firewall Manager: Expands to Asia Pacific New Zealand AI & ML Bedrock: TimeToFirstToken + EstimatedTPMQuotaUsage metrics Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Stateful MCP servers in isolated microVMs Bedrock AgentCore Memory: Kinesis streaming for memory changes Neptune: Native spatial data support, 11 ISO-standard functions Analytics & Data CloudWatch Logs Insights: 100 concurrent queries (was 30) OpenSearch: Cross-account queries from single UI OpenSearch: In-place scaling beyond 3TB without blue-green Glue zero-ETL: Configurable CDC intervals (15min-6days) for DynamoDB S3: Buckets in reserved namespace, predictable naming Networking Route 53 Global Resolver: GA, anycast DNS with threat filtering Compute & Containers Lambda Managed Instances: Rust support MSK: Graviton3 M7g in Cape Town, 24% cost savings Contact Center Connect: Email analytics with PII redaction Connect: Natural language queries across 150+ metrics Connect: 40M product catalog items, 14% better accuracy Connect: Case data in analytics data lake Connect: Multi-sender email addresses per queue Connect: In-platform agent coaching workflows Developer Tools Builder ID: GitHub and Amazon account sign-in CDK Mixins: Composable abstractions with .with() syntax SAM Kiro Power: AI-assisted serverless development Elastic Beanstalk: Real-time deployment logs LZA MCP Server: Natural language infrastructure management SageMaker Studio: 1-second data preview, browser-based ETL 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