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AWS News Mar 23 - Mar 29
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- AWS News Weekly
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- Mar 30, 2026
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- 955
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Summary
This week: Aurora PostgreSQL joins the AWS Free Tier with express configuration for instant serverless setup, Lambda Managed Instances gets a major boost to 32GB memory and 16 vCPUs, and Step Functions adds 28 new service integrations including Bedrock AgentCore. Plus SageMaker HyperPod continuous provisioning, ParallelCluster P6B300 support, and Amazon Q launches in Tokyo, London, and Frankfurt regions. Compute Lambda : 32GB RAM/16 vCPUs, 4096 file descriptors (4x increase) EC2 I8ge : Graviton4, 120TB NVMe, 60% better compute vs I3en GameLift : EC2 5th-8th gen instances (Graviton, DDR5) ECS : FIPS compliance on Graviton/GPU in GovCloud AI/ML Bedrock AgentCore : Managed session storage, Chrome policies, custom CA certs Bedrock : Palmyra Vision 7B model (document/chart analysis) SageMaker HyperPod : Continuous provisioning for Slurm clusters SageMaker : RLHF fine-tuning for 12 models (Qwen, DeepSeek, Llama) SageMaker Studio : Kiro/Cursor IDE support via AWS Toolkit SageMaker Batch : Quota management with job preemption Servertic/Step Functions Step Functions : 28 new services, 1100 API actions, Bedrock AgentCore integration Lambda Durable : Idempotent invocations from workflows Database Aurora PostgreSQL : Free Tier ($100 credits), express config (seconds to query) Aurora DSQL : Ruby pg gem connector with auto IAM tokens Storage & Data HealthOmics : Batch runs up to 100K workflows per request HealthImaging : Study/series-level IAM access control S3 Vectors : Automated ingestion via Step Functions Analytics Amazon Q : London, Frankfurt, Tokyo regions (data sovereignty) CloudWatch Logs IA : Data protection, OpenSearch PPL/SQL queries Timestream InfluxDB : CloudWatch metrics integration Networking & Security Route 53 Profiles : Granular IAM per resource type Firewall Manag…