# AWS News Dec 15 - Dec 21

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Podcast: [AWS News Weekly](https://stenobird.com/podcast/aws-news-weekly-7066669)
Published: 2025-12-23T08:56:29+00:00
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This week: AWS slashes Payment Cryptography pricing by up to 63 percent, EKS adds cluster-wide network policies with DNS-based egress filtering, and Aurora PostgreSQL 18.1 hits preview with skip scan and parallel index builds. Plus new Graviton 4 M8gn instances deliver 600 Gbps networking, Certificate Manager automates Kubernetes certificate lifecycle, and Direct Connect expands to Vietnam. Compute EC2 M8gn/M8gb : Graviton4, 30% better perf, up to 600Gbps network EC2 AZ IDs : APIs accept physical zone IDs directly EC2 Auto Scaling : Sync Launch Instances API with instant feedback ECS Managed Instances : Now supports Spot (up to 90% discount) ECS Fargate : Weekly event windows for task retirement Containers & Kubernetes EKS : Cluster-wide network filters + DNS-based egress policies ECR : Auto-creates repos on push; Public now supports PrivateLink ACM for K8s : Full cert lifecycle automation via ACK controller Database Aurora PostgreSQL 18.1 : Skip scan, parallel GIN builds (preview) Aurora PostgreSQL : 5 new versions, faster Blue/Green switchovers OpenSearch OI2 : 9% higher indexing, multi-tier S3 storage with writes Timestream InfluxDB : Restart API for v2 and v3 Analytics & ML Redshift Serverless : Dual-stack IPv6 support QuickSight : Persistent memory across chats; browser extension runs Flows Bedrock Data Automation : Auto-optimizes blueprints from 10 examples SageMaker Studio : SOCI indexing cuts container startup 30-50% Networking Direct Connect : Vietnam location; FIS integration for BGP failover testing Route 53 Resolver : Detailed CloudWatch metrics (latency, errors) Security & Compliance Control Tower : 176 new Security Hub controls Artifact : Self-service access to historical compliance reports Security Incident Response : Slack integration (bidirectional syn…

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