Author: Sébastien Stormacq

This week’s roundup covers launches across compute, networking, security, and AI. Amazon EC2 introduces new C8id, M8id, and R8id instances powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors. AWS Network Firewall announces price reductions. Amazon DynamoDB global tables now support replication across multiple AWS accounts for improved resiliency and workload isolation.

On the security front, AWS Builder ID now supports Sign in with Apple, AWS STS adds validation for identity provider claims and Amazon CloudFront introduces mutual TLS support for origins to enforce certificate-based authentication. For AI, Claude Opus 4.6—Anthropic’s most intelligent model—is now available in Amazon Bedrock, bringing industry-leading performance for agentic tasks and complex coding projects. Amazon Bedrock also adds structured outputs for consistent, machine-readable responses that adhere to your defined JSON schemas.

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New features enable automatic cost optimization through intelligent storage tiering and simplified table replication across AWS Regions and accounts.

Scale vector storage and querying to new heights with S3 Vectors’ general availability—now supporting up to 1 billion vectors per index, 100ms query latencies, and expanded regional availability, while reducing costs up to 90% compared to specialized databases.

New service acts as an always-on DevOps engineer, helping you respond to incidents, identify root causes, and prevent future issues through systematic analysis of incidents and operational patterns.

Access Partner Central directly through the AWS Console to streamline your journey from customer to Partner—manage solutions, opportunities, and marketplace listings in one unified interface with enterprise-grade security.

AWS announces VPC encryption controls, a new capability that helps organizations audit and enforce encryption in transit for all traffic within and across VPCs in a Region, simplifying compliance with regulatory frameworks like HIPAA, PCI DSS, and FedRAMP through automated monitoring and enforcement modes.

Amazon Bedrock introduces three service tiers—Priority, Standard, and Flex—allowing you to optimize AI workload costs by matching performance requirements with pricing for different application needs.