# AWS News Mar 30 - Apr 05

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Podcast: [AWS News Weekly](https://stenobird.com/podcast/aws-news-weekly-7066669)
Published: 2026-04-06T08:10:55+00:00
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## Resource

This week: AWS announces lifecycle changes for several services including App Runner and Audit Manager entering maintenance mode, Amazon Security Agent brings autonomous penetration testing to GA, and DevOps Agent launches for automated incident resolution. Plus CloudWatch gets native OpenTelemetry support with PromQL querying, S3 Vectors expands to 31 regions, and Direct Connect adds CloudFormation support. Compute & Containers ECS Managed Daemons : Deploy security/observability agents independently, one per instance, runs before app tasks ECS Managed Instances : Instance store volumes for containers, reduces costs vs EBS Lightsail : Compute-optimized bundles up to 72 vCPUs for batch/ML/gaming Database & Storage S3 Vectors : Expands to 31 regions, 2B vectors/index, 100ms latency Aurora DSQL : Official .NET and Rust connectors with IAM auth RDS Oracle on Outposts : Fully managed on-prem with Multi-AZ across racks Oracle Database@AWS : Sub-millisecond latency networking for Exadata migrations AI/ML Amazon Security Agent GA : Autonomous pen testing across AWS/Azure/GCP/on-prem DevOps Agent GA : Resolves incidents, learns apps, cuts MTTR to minutes Bedrock AgentCore Evaluations : 13 built-in evaluators, CI/CD integration Bedrock Guardrails : Cross-account safeguards from central management Transform Custom GA : Codebase analysis for 1M+ LOC, 7 managed transformations OpenSearch : Agentic AI for log analytics, natural language queries Networking Direct Connect : CloudWatch BGP metrics, CloudFormation support, 100Gbps in NZ CloudFront : BYOIP IPv6 via IPAM, SHA-256 signed URLs Observability CloudWatch : Native OTLP metrics, Query Studio with PromQL, auto-enable logging CloudWatch Logs : Lookup command for enrichment, Security Hub CSPM ingestion Container Insights : OTel met…

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