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AWS News May 25 - May 31
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- AWS News Weekly
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- Jun 1, 2026
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- 876
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Summary
This week: Major GPU upgrades hit SageMaker with P6 Blackwell and P5e H200 instances for AI training, OpenSearch Serverless scales 20x faster with scale-to-zero pricing for agentic workloads, and Claude Opus 4 arrives on Bedrock for complex autonomous coding tasks. Plus Shield Advanced adds packet-level DDoS forensics and SES now shows inbox placement metrics. Security & Compliance GuardDuty : Malware scan for S3 continuous backups, verify clean recovery points Shield Advanced : Packet-level DDoS forensics (IPs, ports, protocols) to S3/CloudWatch Backup : OTP verification required for multi-party approval on air-gapped vaults Organizations : CloudTrail events for account join/leave with change method details DynamoDB Streams : PrivateLink FIPS endpoints in GovCloud AI/ML Bedrock : Claude Opus 4.8 for agentic coding, longer autonomous runs Neuron 2.30 : NKI 0.4 with Trainium 3, 22 new kernels, agentic model porting SageMaker notebooks : P6 B200 (8x Blackwell GPUs), P5en, P5, P4de instances Elemental Inference : Smart Subtitles - AI real-time captions, multi-language Database & Analytics RDS Multi-AZ : ENA Express replication, 25Gbps single-flow, lower latency Aurora MySQL : Kiro integration for natural language DB operations EMR : Spark 4.0.2, VARIANT types, Iceberg v3 lineage, Lake Formation RBAC Redshift Serverless : 4 RPU minimum ($1.50/hr) in more regions Networking & Infrastructure Interconnect multicloud : Free 500Mbps tier (160TB/month) IPAM : Tags on pool allocations for IAM/SCP governance IoT Core : Direct messaging API with delivery acknowledgements OpenSearch & Search OpenSearch Serverless : 20x faster scaling, scale-to-zero, 60% cost savings Contact Center Connect Profiles : AI post-contact summaries in 8 language families Connect Profiles : GenAI self-servi…