# AWS News Apr 13 - Apr 19

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Podcast: [AWS News Weekly](https://stenobird.com/podcast/aws-news-weekly-7066669)
Published: 2026-04-20T08:05:36+00:00
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## Resource

This week: AWS Interconnect goes multicloud with Google Cloud support and Azure coming in 2026, Secrets Manager adds post-quantum encryption to protect against future threats, and new C8in instances deliver 600 Gbps networking. Plus CloudWatch gets cross-region telemetry management and Aurora D-sequel launches a dedicated PHP connector. Networking Interconnect Last Mile : Branch/DC to cloud via Lumen, 1-100 Gbps dynamic scaling, MACsec default Interconnect Multicloud : GA - private links to GCP now, Azure/Oracle in 2026, free 500Mbps/region Elastic DR : IPv6 support for replication and control plane Compute EC2 C8in/C8ib : GA - 6th-gen Intel, 600Gbps network (C8in), 300Gbps EBS (C8ib), 43% faster than C6in EC2 C8gn/M8gn/R8gn : 48xlarge/metal now 120Gbps EBS, 480K IOPS (2x previous) Storage FSx : Cross-region backup copy now supports opt-in regions ECR Pull Through Cache : Auto-syncs OCI referrers (signatures, SBOMs, attestations) Analytics Redshift : Top-K query optimization via min/max block skipping, no config needed OpenSearch Serverless : Derived Source reduces storage by reconstructing _source on-the-fly CloudWatch Logs Insights : Parameterized saved queries, up to 20 params, chainable AI/ML SageMaker JumpStart : 3 models - Nemotron 120B, Qwen 3.5 9B/27B SageMaker JumpStart : Optimized deployments - pick cost/throughput/latency targets, 30+ models SageMaker HyperPod : Multi-instance-type groups with priority fallback Deadline Cloud : AI troubleshooting for render failures (Maya, Blender, Houdini, Nuke) Database Aurora dsql : PHP connector with IAM token gen, connection pooling, retry logic Security Secrets Manager : Hybrid post-quantum TLS (ML-KEM) against harvest-now attacks Observtic CloudWatch : Multi-region telemetry audit/enablement, org-wide rules Managed Gr…

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