AWS News Oct 05 - Oct 11

AI & Bedrock

Nova 2.5 Sonic: GA voice model, better reasoning/tool calls, lower latency Claude Haiku 5.5: ~75% cheaper than Haiku 4.5, effort controls (+GovCloud) GLM 5.3: 753B MoE, 1M context, 128K output GPT-6.1 Sol: Ultrafast mode; reasoning summaries for OpenAI models TwelveLabs Pegasus 1.5: Video-to-text with time-coded metadata Kiro GovCloud: Opus 5.5 (half the tokens) & Sonnet 5.5 (30% faster) Strands Bidi Agents: GA for production voice agents Security & Compliance

GuardDuty: RDS Protection detects exfiltration/destruction in PostgreSQL Client VPN: Device posture checks (CrowdStrike, Jamf, JumpCloud) Continuum for Pentesting: CI/CD pentest integration (preview) Private CA: Detailed issuance logs in CloudTrail, incl. failures ACM: ACME certificate issuance via PrivateLink IAM Identity Center: Network access controls for Identity Store/SCIM Security Hub: Export findings to S3 (CSV/OCSF JSON) Network Firewall: Wildcard container attribute filters Lambda: OAuth auth for self-managed Kafka event sources Data & Databases

Redshift: Create/refresh Iceberg materialized views Ruby Driver Wrapper: GA, faster RDS/Aurora failover & switchover RDS Oracle: Upgrade prechecks + early reconnect event Compute & Containers

EC2 C8gb: 30% faster than Graviton3, 300 Gbps EBS, 7 more regions EC2 AMIs: Shared tags visible to recipient accounts Batch: CloudWatch job metrics, EKS access entry auth GameLift: CPU burstability for container fleets Management & Cost

Cost Explorer/Budgets: Bedrock costs by model, provider, inference type Config: 77 new resource types Control Tower AFT: Plan-only Terraform runs SageMaker Unified Studio: Custom CloudFormation tooling blueprints Capabilities by Region: Feature-level availability alerts Quick: Brand templates for docs/presentations Connect: AI checks for evaluation forms AWS News Feed: Whats new at AWS

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