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AWS News Feb 23 - Mar 01
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- AWS News Weekly
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- Mar 2, 2026
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- 1142
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Summary
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…