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AWS News Mar 02 - Mar 08
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- AWS News Weekly
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- Mar 9, 2026
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- 657
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Summary
This week: Amazon Connect Health launches five AI agents for healthcare workflows, Bedrock AgentCore Policy goes GA with natural language-to-Cedar policy conversion, and SageMaker Unified Studio adds Kiro IDE remote connections plus third-party catalog sync. Plus GameLift gets built-in DDoS protection, EventBridge Scheduler bumps default limits to 5K requests per second, and Database Savings Plans now cover OpenSearch and Neptune Analytics. Data & Analytics Redshift : COPY templates for reusable ingestion params; 9 new array functions for SUPER type Redshift Serverless : Datashare permissions preserved on snapshot restore Database Savings Plans : Now cover OpenSearch + Neptune Analytics (up to 35% off) OpenSearch : Capacity Optimized blue/green deployments; O R2/O M2 instances in GovCloud OpenSearch Ingestion : Single endpoint for all 3 OpenTelemetry signals; Prometheus sink support SageMaker Unified Studio : Glue 5.1 (Spark 3.5.6, Iceberg 1.10); catalog sync with Atlan/Collibra/Alation; Kiro IDE remote connections; light mode AI & ML Bedrock AgentCore Policy : GA - centralized agent-tool access control via natural language → Cedar HealthLake : AI agent converts CCDA → FHIR R4 in days (preview) Connect Health : 5 healthcare AI agents GA (verification, scheduling, documentation, coding) Kiro : Lambda durable functions power for long-running workflow guidance Elastic Beanstalk : AI-powered health diagnostics via Bedrock Compute & Infrastructure EC2 I8ge : Graviton4, 60% better compute, 55% better storage perf vs I4g (EU) Batch : Configurable instance idle time (20min–1 week) SageMaker HyperPod : Built-in Grafana observability for Nova Forge training GameLift : Built-in DDoS protection with relay network (no extra cost) Security & Management Config : 30 new resource types…