This week: S3 introduces reserved namespaces eliminating the hunt for globally unique bucket names, Route 53 Global Resolver goes GA with anycast DNS and built-in threat filtering, and Bedrock AgentCore adds stateful MCP server support for complex multi-turn workflows. Plus CloudWatch Logs Insights triples concurrent query limits and Neptune gets native spatial data support.

Security & Identity

• IAM Roles Anywhere: Post-quantum certificates (FIPS 204 ML-DSA)
• Private CA SCEP: PrivateLink support, no public internet needed
• WorkSpaces: Windows Server 2025 bundles with TPM 2.0, Secure Boot
• Backup: Logically air-gapped vaults for EKS clusters
• Network Firewall: Now in AWS European Sovereign Cloud
• Firewall Manager: Expands to Asia Pacific New Zealand

AI & ML

• Bedrock: TimeToFirstToken + EstimatedTPMQuotaUsage metrics
• Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Stateful MCP servers in isolated microVMs
• Bedrock AgentCore Memory: Kinesis streaming for memory changes
• Neptune: Native spatial data support, 11 ISO-standard functions

Analytics & Data

• CloudWatch Logs Insights: 100 concurrent queries (was 30)
• OpenSearch: Cross-account queries from single UI
• OpenSearch: In-place scaling beyond 3TB without blue-green
• Glue zero-ETL: Configurable CDC intervals (15min-6days) for DynamoDB
• S3: Buckets in reserved namespace, predictable naming

Networking

• Route 53 Global Resolver: GA, anycast DNS with threat filtering

Compute & Containers

• Lambda Managed Instances: Rust support
• MSK: Graviton3 M7g in Cape Town, 24% cost savings

Contact Center

• Connect: Email analytics with PII redaction
• Connect: Natural language queries across 150+ metrics
• Connect: 40M product catalog items, 14% better accuracy
• Connect: Case data in analytics data lake
• Connect: Multi-sender email addresses per queue
• Connect: In-platform agent coaching workflows

Developer Tools

• Builder ID: GitHub and Amazon account sign-in
• CDK Mixins: Composable abstractions with .with() syntax
• SAM Kiro Power: AI-assisted serverless development
• Elastic Beanstalk: Real-time deployment logs
• LZA MCP Server: Natural language infrastructure management
• SageMaker Studio: 1-second data preview, browser-based ETL

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