# AWS News Jan 26 - Feb 01

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Podcast: [AWS News Weekly](https://stenobird.com/podcast/aws-news-weekly-7066669)
Published: 2026-02-02T08:06:19+00:00
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## Resource

This week: EventBridge quadruples payload limits to 1MB, EKS adds Kubernetes 1.35 with in-place pod resource updates, and S3 lets you change encryption types without moving data. Plus Network Firewall gains AI traffic filtering, GameLift scales to zero, and new Deployment Agent SOPs take web apps from prototype to production with a single prompt. Compute & Containers EKS 1.35 : In-place pod resource updates, local traffic distribution, image volumes for AI models GameLift Servers : Auto-scale to/from zero instances, eliminates idle costs Lambda : Enhanced Kafka observability with CloudWatch logs/metrics for MSK Storage & Database S3 : Change encryption type without moving data via Update Object Encryption API EventBridge : 1MB event payloads (4x increase) DynamoDB : Global tables integrate with Fault Injection Service for resilience testing RDS : R6id/R6gd instances in more regions; Graviton up to 40% better perf RDS Oracle : Cross-region replicas with multi-volume support, up to 256 TiB Keyspaces : Table pre-warming for traffic spikes AI & ML Bedrock : 1-hour prompt cache TTL for Claude (was 5 min) Bedrock : Server-side custom tools via Responses API, Lambda integration SageMaker Unified Studio : PrivateLink support for private data traffic Security & Networking Network Firewall : GenAI traffic filtering with web categories IAM Identity Center : IPv6 dual-stack endpoints Cognito : Lambda triggers to transform federated user attributes Lightsail : IMDSv2 enforced by default on Node.js/LAMP/Ruby blueprints Management & Developer Tools Deployment Agent SOPs : Natural language to production via MCP Server Connect Cases : Tag-based access control Deadline Cloud : Edit job names/descriptions post-submission ECS : Container health status as CloudWatch metric End User & Partn…

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