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AWS News Jun 15 - Jun 21
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- AWS News Weekly
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- Jun 22, 2026
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- 1920
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Summary
This week: AWS launches Continuum for autonomous security vulnerability management, Bedrock AgentCore reaches GA with built-in guardrails and optimization tools, and S3 Vectors slashes query costs by up to 80%. Plus WAF introduces AI bot monetization, CloudWatch adds cross-account metrics replication, and new Graviton 5-powered M9g database instances deliver 30% better performance. Compute EC2 G7 : GA, NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell, 4.6x better AI inference vs G6 RDS : M9g instances (Graviton 5), 30% better perf, up to 192 vCPU RDS X2m : Memory-optimized SQL Server, 50%+ licensing savings, 4TB RAM Outposts : bmn-cx3a bare-metal, AMD EPYC + 800Gbps networking ECS : Auto scaling 4x faster with 20-second metric resolution Storage & Data S3 Vectors : 80% lower query costs for 10M+ vectors, 10K results/query (100x increase) S3 Annotations : Up to 1GB JSON/XML/YAML metadata per object RDS SQL Server : GP3 volumes to 64TiB, 80K IOPS, 2000MB/s (4-5x increase) AI/ML Bedrock AgentCore : GA - harness, memory, web search, guardrails integration Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base : GA, 6 connectors, hybrid search Bedrock Guardrails : InvokeGuardrailChecks API, Automated Reasoning in Sydney Glue Catalog : AI-enriched tables with glossary terms, semantic search API Security AWS Continuum : Security Agent with simulated exploit validation Security Agent : AI threat modeling (STRIDE), IDE integration WAF : Traffic monetization for AI bots via x402 protocol Route 53 : Palo Alto DNS Security integration (preview) Console Sign-in : Resource-based policies for network restrictions Observability CloudWatch : Cross-account metric replication, OpenTelemetry support, Query Studio GA CloudWatch Log Analytics : Unified Insights/Live Tail/Contributor console CloudWatch Synthetics : Multi-region canar…