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AWS News Jun 29 - Jul 05
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- AWS News Weekly
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- Jul 6, 2026
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- 1235
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Summary
This week: EC2 C9g instances debut with fifth-gen Graviton delivering 25% better performance, Claude Sonnet 5 arrives on Bedrock with superior coding and agentic capabilities, and CloudFormation express mode cuts deployments by up to 4x. Plus OpenSearch gets a purpose-built log analytics engine with 4x better price-performance, and ECS adds zone-aware routing to cut cross-AZ costs. Compute EC2 C9g/C9gd : Graviton 5, 25% faster than G4, 35% faster ML inference EC2 Dedicated Hosts : AMD SEV-SNP confidential computing support EC2 Auto Scaling : Reservations-then-balanced strategy for capacity reservations Time Sync : Microsecond accuracy on 26 more instance types AI/ML Claude Sonnet 5 : On Bedrock, better multi-file code changes, fewer corrections Bedrock AgentCore : 5K concurrent sessions, 200 interactions/sec default quotas Bedrock AgentCore Gateway : WAF integration for agent protection SageMaker : Serverless fine-tuning for Gemma 4 models (4B, 31B) SageMaker Inference : Auto image caching, 50% faster cold starts SageMaker HyperPod : Auto security patching, AMI version visibility Security Hub : 31 AI security controls for Bedrock/SageMaker GovCloud : GPT-5.4 (272K context), Nemotron 3 Super on Bedrock Containers EKS : Minor version rollback within 7 days ECS Express Mode : Custom task definitions supported ECS : Zone-aware Service Connect routing, deployment timeline UI ECS : Configurable circuit breaker thresholds Network Firewall : Native container rules (namespace, labels) Storage & Data S3 Logs : Direct to CloudWatch Logs and S3 Tables (Iceberg) OpenSearch : Log analytics engine, 4x price-performance, 70% less storage Neptune : Dual-stack IPv4/IPv6 support Operations CloudFormation : Pre-deployment validation in seconds CloudFormation Express : 4x faster deploys (C…