Living in the Netherlands, I spend a fair amount of time on trains, and that is usually where I catch up on what the builder community is writing. Until now, that meant opening a laptop or squinting at a browser tab on my phone. This week I found myself scrolling through trending articles and checking a workshop from the AWS Builder Center mobile app while waiting for a delayed train, and it made those spare twenty minutes very useful. That is why I am glad to open this week with the Builder Center mobile app.

AWS Builder Center is now available as a mobile app on iOS and Android, extending the experience beyond desktop and web. Using your AWS Builder ID, you stay signed in across sessions and can browse trending articles, access 600+ AWS Skill Builder courses, and manage hands-on workshops with free sandbox environments from your mobile device. You can follow AWS Heroes, Community Builders, and User Group Leaders, check Builder Loft event calendars on the go, and receive push notifications for subscribed topics and communities. The app also supports the Wishlist feature for submitting product feedback directly to AWS teams. It is available worldwide on the Apple App Store and Google Play Store.

Builder Center also added two features this week. Polls give you a way to ask the community a question from the Home feed: write a question, add 2 to 5 answer options, set a deadline, and people vote, with results updating live and discussion happening in the comments. Votes are anonymous, and creators see aggregate counts and percentages only. Separately, the Zero to Shipped hackathon is open from September 18 to October 2. You connect your coding agent to AWS, build a real application, and ship it live on AWS for a chance to win a share of a $28,000 prize pool. Five winning projects each receive $5,000 in AWS credits and an AWS Builder swag bundle.

Last week’s launches
Here is what else happened this week.

• Amazon Connect Talent is now generally available – Amazon Connect Talent is an AI-powered hiring solution for talent acquisition teams managing hiring at scale. Informed by decades of Amazon hiring science, it uses AI agents to conduct structured voice interviews, administer evidence-based assessments, and score candidates consistently, so recruiters can focus on final decisions. Candidates interview 24/7 from any device, and recruiters review scores, transcripts, and detailed evaluations the next morning. All candidate data is anonymized during AI evaluation, each competency is scored against a rubric with every score tied to specific evidence from the interview, and recruiters keep final decision authority over every hire. General availability includes competency-based assessments, AI-led voice interviews with adaptive questioning, a brand-customizable mobile-first candidate portal, and admin onboarding tools.
• Amazon Corretto 27 is now generally available – Amazon Corretto 27, a Feature Release version of the no-cost, multi-platform distribution of OpenJDK, is now available for download on Linux, Windows, and macOS, with support through April 2027. Notable features include G1 as the default garbage collector across all environments (JEP 523), post-quantum hybrid key exchange for TLS 1.3 (JEP 527), compact object headers by default for a smaller memory footprint (JEP 534), and JFR in-process data redaction to remove sensitive data from Java Flight Recorder recordings before they leave the JVM (JEP 536). It also continues previews of enhanced pattern matching, structured concurrency, and lazy constants, along with the Vector API incubator.
• Kimi K3 by Moonshot AI is now generally available on Amazon Bedrock – Kimi K3 is now available on Amazon Bedrock for coding and knowledge work. According to Moonshot AI, Kimi K3 is its most capable model and the first open model to reach 2.8 trillion parameters. It combines native vision capabilities with a 1-million-token context window, making it well suited to long-running coding sessions across large repositories, multi-document analysis, and extended agent workflows. Moonshot AI reports an approximate 2.5x improvement in scaling efficiency over Kimi K2. Kimi K3 is the first open-weight model on Amazon Bedrock to support explicit prompt caching, which helps reduce latency and input costs when reusing context across model calls.
• AWS reimagines the getting started experience – We announced a new simplified experience for builders starting a new project. Instead of completing configuration tasks first, you start with sensible defaults: sign up using an existing identity from providers including Google, GitHub, and Apple, and for most new customers no credit card is required, with $100 in free credits as part of the AWS Free Tier. AWS organizes your work in a project, which contains an AWS account and sharing settings, and applies security controls for you. You can invite collaborators by email without setting up IAM users, set a monthly spend limit starting at $20, and activate advanced AWS features later at no additional cost with no migration. The experience is gradually rolling out to new customers.
• New low-cost burstable Amazon EC2 T8i instances are generally available – Amazon EC2 T8i instances, powered by custom sixth-generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors (Granite Rapids), are among the lowest-cost EC2 instances and deliver up to 30% better price performance over previous-generation T3 instances. They are designed for low-to-moderate CPU utilization workloads such as microservices, low-traffic websites, development and testing environments, and small databases. T8i instances deliver up to 70% higher compute performance, up to 1.25x higher network bandwidth, and up to 2.4x higher Amazon EBS bandwidth compared to T3, and they use the same CPU credit system, so upgrading from T3 is straightforward.
• AWS Elastic Beanstalk introduces Cluster Mode – AWS Elastic Beanstalk Cluster Mode is a new fully managed option for teams running a portfolio of applications on shared infrastructure powered by Amazon EKS. Instead of operating each application in isolation, you run multiple applications through one experience with a single operational baseline, so per-application cost decreases as your portfolio grows. You can upload source code in Java, .NET, Python, Node.js, PHP, Ruby, or Go, and Elastic Beanstalk handles containerization automatically through Cloud Native Buildpacks when needed. Cluster Mode includes production-grade deployment strategies with automatic rollback, event-driven autoscaling, AWS Secrets Manager integration, native OpenTelemetry observability, and AI-powered troubleshooting. Standard and Cluster Mode environments run side by side within the same application, so teams can migrate one environment at a time.

For a full list of AWS announcements, be sure to keep an eye on the What’s New with AWS page.

Other AWS news
Here are some additional posts you may find useful:

• Building in the AWS European Sovereign Cloud – Two new posts cover building on the AWS European Sovereign Cloud, an independent cloud for Europe that runs as a distinct partition with its own control plane, IAM, billing, console, and service endpoints, and its first Region in Brandenburg, Germany. The first post walks through architecting a secure landing zone, covering account structure and governance, identity as infrastructure as code, centralized logging, data protection, and partition-aware ARN construction that works across AWS partitions. The second announces the general availability of Gemma 4 open-weight models on the Amazon Bedrock next-generation inference engine in the AWS European Sovereign Cloud, with inference staying entirely within eusc-de-east-1 under a zero data retention and zero operator access model.
• The new AgentCore runtime: elastic, optimized, and consistently fast starts – We announced a new version of the Amazon Bedrock AgentCore runtime, the managed compute layer for running agents. The new runtime reclaims memory as a session releases it rather than holding it at the peak, so the bill tracks real usage over the life of a session. It also delivers consistent cold start times regardless of container image size or concurrency by preparing the environment once, snapshotting it, and restoring that snapshot for each new instance. In testing with an empty echo agent, the new runtime delivered a P75 cold start of about 2 seconds from a 200 MB image up to 2 GB, compared to roughly 5.4 to nearly 30 seconds for the original runtime.
• Introducing the updated AWS Well-Architected Streaming Media Lens – We published a revised Streaming Media Lens, which provides architectural best practices for video streaming workloads. The revision expands from the original 2021 version to cover five streaming scenarios, including interactive live streaming with Amazon IVS Real-Time Streaming for up to 25,000 concurrent viewers, low-latency live streaming, and ad-supported content monetization, alongside enhanced video-on-demand and live streaming guidance. It also adds new sustainability best practices focused on reducing carbon footprint, expanded observability and incident-response frameworks, and advanced content protection with multi-layered DRM and forensic watermarking. The lens whitepaper and custom lens are available now.

For a full list of AWS blog posts, be sure to keep an eye on the AWS Blogs page.

Upcoming AWS events
Check your calendar and sign up for upcoming AWS events:

• AWS re:Invent – AWS re:Invent returns to Las Vegas from November 30 to December 4. 2, 200+ session times, locations, and speakers are live. Reserved seating for AWS re:Invent opens October 6. Register now and be ready to claim your spot in chalk talks, workshops, and builders’ sessions when reserved seating opens.
• AWS Summits – AWS Summits are free in-person events covering cloud and AI. With re:Invent on the horizon, the Summits are coming to an end for the year. The last Summit is Dubai (September 30) at the Dubai World Trade Center, with 60+ sessions, an AWS Village, and hands-on workshops.
• AWS Community Days – Community-led conferences planned and delivered by community leaders. Upcoming events include Lebanon (September 26), Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur (September 26), Cebu, Philippines (September 26), Davao, Philippines (September 26), ComSum Manchester, UK (October 1), and Italy, Rome (October 2).

Summer has officially given way to September, but the weather where I am has not quite caught up. The days are still unusually warm, and I suspect these are the last mild afternoons before autumn settles in for good. I am making the most of them while they last. Come back next week for more!

— Esra

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Hello! I’m Daniel Abib, and this is my first AWS Weekly Roundup. I’m a Senior Specialist Solutions Architect at AWS, focused on the generative AI and Amazon Bedrock. With over 28 years of experience in solution architecture, software development, and cloud architecture, I help Startups & Enterprises harness the power of generative AI with Amazon Bedrock. I’ve been at AWS for more than six and a half years, working closely with customers across Latin America, and I’m also passionate about Serverless technologies.

Outside of work and endurance sports, I’m a dedicated father to Cecília (7) and Rafael (4), who keep me busier—and happier— than any distributed system ever could. I’m based in São Paulo, you can find me on LinkedIn and X (@DCABib), where I share insights about generative AI, Amazon Bedrock, AWS serverless services, and the occasional Ironman throwback.

Now, let’s get into this week’s AWS news…

Last week’s launches

Here are some launches and updates from this past week that caught my attention:

• Amazon Redshift increases performance for new queries in dashboards and ETL workloads by up to 7x — Amazon Redshift now delivers up to 7x faster performance for new queries in dashboards and ETL workloads. Queries you run for the first time — without cached results — now execute significantly faster, reducing wait times for interactive dashboards and accelerating your ETL pipelines. This is particularly impactful for workloads with high query variability where cache hits are less frequent.
• NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super now available on Amazon Bedrock — NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super is now available in Amazon Bedrock, expanding the lineup of foundation models you can access through the unified Bedrock API. Nemotron 3 Super is a high-performance language model optimized for tasks such as text generation, complex reasoning, summarization, and code generation. You can now invoke Nemotron 3 Super alongside other foundation models in your existing Bedrock workflows, without managing any infrastructure.
• Introducing Nova Forge SDK, a seamless way to customize Nova models for enterprise AI — Nova Forge SDK provides a streamlined way to fine-tune and customize Amazon Nova models for enterprise use cases. You can adapt Nova models to your domain-specific data and deploy them directly within Amazon Bedrock, reducing the complexity of building tailored AI solutions. The SDK handles the heavy lifting of model customization, letting you focus on your business logic rather than the underlying infrastructure.
• Amazon Corretto 26 is now generally available — Amazon Corretto 26, the latest long-term support (LTS) release of the no-cost, production-ready distribution of OpenJDK, is now generally available. Corretto 26 includes the latest Java language features, performance improvements, and security patches, all backed by long-term support from AWS. You can use it across development and production environments on Amazon Linux, Windows, macOS, and Docker images.
• AWS Lambda now supports Availability Zone metadata — AWS Lambda now provides Availability Zone metadata for your function invocations. You can now identify which Availability Zone your Lambda function is running in, enabling better observability, more informed architectural decisions, and simplified troubleshooting for latency-sensitive and multi-AZ workloads. This is particularly useful when correlating Lambda execution with other AZ-aware services in your architecture.
• Amazon CloudWatch Logs now supports log ingestion using HTTP-based protocol — Amazon CloudWatch Logs now supports ingesting logs using an HTTP-based protocol, making it simpler to send logs from applications and services that use standard HTTP endpoints. You can now route logs to CloudWatch Logs without requiring custom agents or additional SDK integrations, lowering the barrier to centralized log management across your workloads.
• Amazon EKS announces 99.99% Service Level Agreement and new 8XL scaling tier for Provisioned Control Plane clusters — Amazon EKS now offers a 99.99% Service Level Agreement (SLA) for clusters running on Provisioned Control Plane, up from the 99.95% SLA offered on standard control plane. EKS is also introducing the 8XL scaling tier, the largest available Provisioned Control Plane tier, which doubles the Kubernetes API server request processing capacity of the next lower 4XL tier — ideal for large-scale workloads like AI/ML training, high-performance computing (HPC), and large-scale data processing.

Other AWS news

Here are some additional posts and resources that you might find interesting:

• Kiro for students — Kiro is now available for students, giving the next generation of builders access to AI-powered development tools at no cost. As Swami Sivasubramanian shared on LinkedIn, “Students are the future decision-makers shaping technology” — and Kiro gives them hands-on experience building with AI from day one. If you’re a student or know someone who is, this is a great opportunity to start building with AI-assisted development.
• Strands Steering Hooks achieved 100% agent accuracy — The Strands Agents team published results showing that Steering Hooks can achieve 100% agent accuracy, outperforming both prompt engineering and rigid workflow approaches for controlling agent behavior. As Swami highlighted on LinkedIn, building reliable AI agents often means rethinking how we guide model behavior — and Steering Hooks offer a compelling new path to agent reliability.
• Introducing Badges on AWS Builder Center — AWS Builder Center now features badges that recognize your contributions and achievements within the builder community. You can earn badges by sharing solutions, participating in challenges, and engaging with fellow builders. It’s a great way to showcase your expertise and track your growth.
• Keep Building Together: The Power of Community — A thoughtful read on the power of community-driven learning and collaboration in the AWS ecosystem. Whether you’re just getting started with AWS or you’ve been building for years, the builder community is a place to connect, share knowledge, and grow together. I highly recommend checking it out.

Upcoming AWS events

Check your calendar and sign up for upcoming AWS events:

• AWS Summits — Join AWS Summits in 2026, free in-person events where you can explore emerging cloud and AI technologies, learn best practices, and network with industry peers and experts. Upcoming Summits include Paris (April 1), London (April 22), Bengaluru (April 23–24), Singapore (May 6), Tel Aviv (May 6), and Stockholm (May 7).
• AWS Community Days — Community-led conferences where content is planned, sourced, and delivered by community leaders, featuring technical discussions, workshops, and hands-on labs. Upcoming events include San Francisco (April 10) and Romania (April 23–24).
• AWSome Women Summit LATAM — Taking place on March 28 in Mexico City, this event celebrates and empowers women in cloud technology across Latin America. A fantastic initiative for the LATAM tech community.

Join the AWS Builder Center to connect with builders, share solutions, and access content that supports your development. Browse the AWS Events and Webinars for upcoming AWS-led in-person and virtual events and developer-focused events.

That’s all for this week. Check back next Monday for another Weekly Roundup!

This post is part of our Weekly Roundup series. Check back each week for a quick roundup of interesting news and announcements from AWS!

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Hey! It’s my first post for 2026, and I’m writing to you while watching our driveway getting dug out. I hope wherever you are you are safe and warm and your data is still flowing!

This week brings exciting news for customers running GPU-intensive workloads, with the launch of our newest graphics and AI inference instances powered by NVIDIA’s latest Blackwell architecture. Along with several service enhancements and regional expansions, this week’s updates continue to expand the capabilities available to AWS customers.

Last week’s launches

I thought these projects, blog posts, and news items were also interesting:

• Amazon EC2 G7e instances are now generally available — The new G7e instances accelerated by NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs deliver up to 2.3 times better inference performance compared to G6e instances. With two times the GPU memory and support for up to 8 GPUs providing 768 GB of total GPU memory, these instances enable running medium-sized models of up to 70B parameters with FP8 precision on a single GPU. G7e instances are ideal for generative AI inference, spatial computing, and scientific computing workloads. Available now in US East (N. Virginia) and US East (Ohio).
• Amazon Corretto January 2026 Quarterly Updates — AWS released quarterly security and critical updates for Amazon Corretto Long-Term Supported (LTS) versions of OpenJDK. Corretto 25.0.2, 21.0.10, 17.0.18, 11.0.30, and 8u482 are now available, ensuring Java developers have access to the latest security patches and performance improvements.
• Amazon ECR now supports cross-repository layer sharing — Amazon Elastic Container Registry now enables you to share common image layers across repositories through blob mounting. This feature helps you achieve faster image pushes by reusing existing layers and reduce storage costs by storing common layers once and referencing them across repositories.
• Amazon CloudWatch Database Insights expands to four additional regions — CloudWatch Database Insights on-demand analysis is now available in Asia Pacific (New Zealand), Asia Pacific (Taipei), Asia Pacific (Thailand), and Mexico (Central). This feature uses machine learning to help identify performance bottlenecks and provides specific remediation advice.
• Amazon Connect adds conditional logic and real-time updates to Step-by-Step Guides — Amazon Connect Step-by-Step Guides now enables managers to build dynamic guided experiences that adapt based on user interactions. Managers can configure conditional user interfaces with dropdown menus that show or hide fields, change default values, or adjust required fields based on prior inputs. The feature also supports automatic data refresh from Connect resources, ensuring agents always work with current information.

Upcoming AWS events

Keep a look out and be sure to sign up for these upcoming events:

• Best of AWS re:Invent (January 28-29, Virtual) — Join us for this free virtual event bringing you the most impactful announcements and top sessions from AWS re:Invent. AWS VP and Chief Evangelist Jeff Barr will share highlights during the opening session. Sessions run January 28 at 9:00 AM PT for AMER, and January 29 at 9:00 AM SGT for APJ and 9:00 AM CET for EMEA. Register to access curated technical learning, strategic insights from AWS leaders, and live Q&A with AWS experts.
• AWS Community Day Ahmedabad (February 28, 2026, Ahmedabad, India) — The 11th edition of this community-driven AWS conference brings together cloud professionals, developers, architects, and students for expert-led technical sessions, real-world use cases, tech expo booths with live demos, and networking opportunities. This free event includes breakfast, lunch, and exclusive swag.

Join the AWS Builder Center to learn, build, and connect with builders in the AWS community. Browse for upcoming in-person and virtual developer-focused events in your area.

That’s all for this week. Check back next Monday for another Weekly Roundup!

~ micah

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Three weeks ago, I published a post about the new AWS Region in New Zealand (ap-southeast-6). This led to an incredible opportunity to visit New Zealand, where I met passionate builders and presented at several events including Serverless and Platform Engineering meetup, AWS Tools and Programming meetup, AWS Cloud Clubs in Auckland, and AWS Community Day New Zealand.

During my content creation process for these presentations, I discovered a useful feature in Amazon Q CLI called tangent mode. This feature has transformed how I stay focused by creating conversation checkpoints that let you explore side topics without losing your main thread.

This feature is in experimental mode, and you can enable it with q settings chat.enableTangentMode true. Try it out and see if it helps you.

Last week’s launches
Here are some launches that got my attention:

• New Foundation Models in Amazon Bedrock — Amazon Bedrock expands its model selection with Qwen model family, DeepSeek-V3.1, and Stability AI image services now generally available, giving developers access to powerful multilingual models and advanced image generation capabilities for text generation, code generation, image creation, and complex problem-solving tasks.
• Amazon VPC Reachability Analyzer Expands to Seven New Regions — Network Access Analyzer capabilities are now available in additional regions, helping customers analyze and troubleshoot network connectivity issues across their VPC infrastructure with improved global coverage.
• Amazon Q Developer Supports Remote MCP Servers — Amazon Q Developer now integrates with remote Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers, enabling developers to extend their AI assistant capabilities with custom tools and data sources for enhanced development workflows.
• AWS Step Functions Enhances Distributed Map with New Data Source Options — Step Functions introduces additional data source options and improved observability features for Distributed Map, making it easier to process large-scale parallel workloads with better monitoring and debugging capabilities.
• Amazon Corretto 25 Generally Available — Amazon’s no-cost, multiplatform distribution of OpenJDK 25 is now generally available, providing Java developers with long-term support, performance enhancements, and security updates for building modern applications.
• Amazon SageMaker HyperPod Introduces Autoscaling — SageMaker HyperPod now supports automatic scaling capabilities, allowing machine learning teams to dynamically adjust compute resources based on workload demands, optimizing both performance and cost for distributed training jobs.

Additional Updates

• AWS Named Leader in 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for AI Code Assistants – AWS has been recognized as a Leader in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for AI Code Assistants, highlighting Amazon Q Developer’s capabilities in helping developers write code faster and more securely with AI-powered suggestions.
• Become an AWS Cloud Club Captain – Only a couple of days before it closes! Join a growing network of student cloud enthusiasts by becoming an AWS Cloud Club Captain! As a Captain, you’ll get to organize events and build cloud communities while developing leadership skills. The application window is open September 1-28, 2025.

Upcoming AWS events
Check your calendars and sign up for these upcoming AWS events as well as AWS re:Invent and AWS Summits:

• AWS AI Agent Global Hackathon – This is your chance to dive deep into our powerful generative AI stack and create something truly awesome. From September 8th to October 20th, you have the opportunity to create AI agents using AWS suite of AI services, competing for over $45,000 in prizes and exclusive go-to-market opportunities.
• AWS Gen AI Lofts – You can learn AWS AI products and services with exclusive sessions and meet industry-leading experts, and have valuable networking opportunities with investors and peers. Register in your nearest city: Mexico City (September 30–October 2), Paris (October 7–21), London (Oct 13–21), and Tel Aviv (November 11–19).
• AWS Community Days – Join community-led conferences that feature technical discussions, workshops, and hands-on labs led by expert AWS users and industry leaders from around the world: South Africa (September 20), Bolivia (September 20), Portugal (September 27), and Manila (October 4-5).

You can browse all upcoming AWS events and AWS startup events.

That’s all for this week. Check back next Monday for another Weekly Roundup!

Happy building!

— Donnie

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When running container workloads, you need to understand how software vulnerabilities create security risks for your resources. Until now, you could identify vulnerabilities in your Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR) images, but couldn’t determine if these images were active in containers or track their usage. With no visibility if these images were being used on running clusters, you had limited ability to prioritize fixes based on actual deployment and usage patterns.

Starting today, Amazon Inspector offers two new features that enhance vulnerability management, giving you a more comprehensive view of your container images. First, Amazon Inspector now maps Amazon ECR images to running containers, enabling security teams to prioritize vulnerabilities based on containers currently running in your environment. With these new capabilities, you can analyze vulnerabilities in your Amazon ECR images and prioritize findings based on whether they are currently running and when they last ran in your container environment. Additionally, you can see the cluster Amazon Resource Name (ARN), number EKS pods or ECS tasks where an image is deployed, helping you prioritize fixes based on usage and severity.

Second, we’re extending vulnerability scanning support to minimal base images including scratch, distroless, and Chainguard images, and extending support for additional ecosystems including Go toolchain, Oracle JDK & JRE, Amazon Corretto, Apache Tomcat, Apache httpd, WordPress (core, themes, plugins), and Puppeteer, helping teams maintain robust security even in highly optimized container environments.

Through continual monitoring and tracking of images running on containers, Amazon Inspector helps teams identify which container images are actively running in their environment and where they’re deployed, detecting Amazon ECR images running on containers in Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) and Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS), and any associated vulnerabilities. This solution supports teams managing Amazon ECR images across single AWS accounts, cross-account scenarios, and AWS Organizations with delegated administrator capabilities, enabling centralized vulnerability management based on container images running patterns.

Let’s see it in action
Amazon ECR image scanning helps identify vulnerabilities in your container images through enhanced scanning, which integrates with Amazon Inspector to provide automated, continual scanning of your repositories. To use this new feature you have to enable enhanced scanning through the Amazon ECR console, you can do it by following the steps in the Configuring enhanced scanning for images in Amazon ECR documentation page. I already have Amazon ECR enhanced scanning, so I don’t have to do any action.

In the Amazon Inspector console, I navigate to General settings and select ECR scanning settings from the navigation panel. Here, I can configure the new Image re-scan mode settings by choosing between Last in-use date and Last pull date. I leave it as it is by default with Last in-use date and set the Image last in use date to 14 days. These settings make it so that Inspector monitors my images based on when they were running in the last 14 days in my Amazon ECS or Amazon EKS environments. After applying these settings, Amazon Inspector starts tracking information about images running on containers and incorporating it into vulnerability findings, helping me focus on images actively running in containers in my environment.

After it’s configured, I can view information about images running on containers in the Details menu, where I can see last in-use and pull dates, along with EKS pods or ECS tasks count.

When selecting the number of Deployed ECS Tasks/EKS Pods, I can see the cluster ARN, last use dates, and Type for each image.

For cross-account visibility demonstration, I have a repository with EKS pods deployed in two accounts. In the Resources coverage menu, I navigate to Container repositories, select my repository name and choose the Image tag. As before, I can see the number of deployed EKS pods/ECS tasks.

When I select the number of deployed EKS pods/ECS tasks, I can see that it is running in a different account.

In the Findings menu, I can review any vulnerabilities, and by selecting one, I can find the Last in use date and Deployed ECS Tasks/EKS Pods involved in the vulnerability under Resource affected data, helping me prioritize remediation based on actual usage.

In the All Findings menu, you can now search for vulnerabilities within account management, using filters such as Account ID, Image in use count and Image last in use at.

Key features and considerations
Monitoring based on container image lifecycle – Amazon Inspector now determines image activity based on: image push date ranging duration 14, 30, 60, 90, or 180 days or lifetime, image pull date from 14, 30, 60, 90, or 180 days, stopped duration from never to 14, 30, 60, 90, or 180 days and status of image running on the container. This flexibility lets organizations tailor their monitoring strategy based on actual container image usage rather than only repository events. For Amazon EKS and Amazon ECS workloads, last in use, push and pull duration are set to 14 days, which is now the default for new customers.

Image runtime-aware finding details – To help prioritize remediation efforts, each finding in Amazon Inspector now includes the lastInUseAt date and InUseCount, indicating when an image was last running on the containers and the number of deployed EKS pods/ ECS tasks currently using it. Amazon Inspector monitors both Amazon ECR last pull date data and images running on Amazon ECS tasks or Amazon EKS pods container data for all accounts, updating this information at least once daily. Amazon Inspector integrates these details into all findings reports and seamlessly works with Amazon EventBridge. You can filter findings based on the lastInUseAt field using rolling window or fixed range options, and you can filter images based on their last running date within the last 14, 30, 60, or 90 days.

Comprehensive security coverage – Amazon Inspector now provides unified vulnerability assessments for both traditional Linux distributions and minimal base images including scratch, distroless, and Chainguard images through a single service. This extended coverage eliminates the need for multiple scanning solutions while maintaining robust security practices across your entire container ecosystem, from traditional distributions to highly optimized container environments. The service streamlines security operations by providing comprehensive vulnerability management through a centralized platform, enabling efficient assessment of all container types.

Enhanced cross-account visibility – Security management across single accounts, cross-account setups, and AWS Organizations is now supported through delegated administrator capabilities. Amazon Inspector shares images running on container information within the same organization, which is particularly valuable for accounts maintaining golden image repositories. Amazon Inspector provides all ARNs for Amazon EKS and Amazon ECS clusters where images are running, if the resource belongs to the account with an API, providing comprehensive visibility across multiple AWS accounts. The system updates deployed EKS pods or ECS tasks information at least one time daily and automatically maintains accuracy as accounts join or leave the organization.

Availability and pricing – The new container mapping capabilities are available now in all AWS Regions where Amazon Inspector is offered at no additional cost. To get started, visit the Amazon Inspector documentation. For pricing details and Regional availability, refer to the Amazon Inspector pricing page.

PS: Writing a blog post at AWS is always a team effort, even when you see only one name under the post title. In this case, I want to thank Nirali Desai, for her generous help with technical guidance, and expertise, which made this overview possible and comprehensive.

— Eli

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I counted about 40 new launches from AWS since last week – back to our normal rhythm of releases. Services teams are listening to your feedback and developing little (or big) changes that makes your life easier when working with our services. The ability to support multiple sessions in the AWS Console is my favorite one so far in 2025.

But our teams didn’t stop there, let’s look at the last week’s new announcements.

Last week’s launches

Beside the usual Regional expansion (new capabilities that are now available in a new Region), here are the launches that got my attention.

Amazon EventBridge announces direct delivery to cross-account targets – Amazon EventBridge is now able to deliver events to targets in another AWS account directly without having to send them to the default bus in the target account first. This will simplify so many architectures out there! It supports any target that supports resource-based policies, including AWS Lambda, Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS), Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS), Amazon Kinesis, and Amazon API Gateway.

Amazon Corretto quaterly update – We announced quarterly security and critical updates for Amazon Corretto Long-Term Supported (LTS) and Feature Release (FR) versions of OpenJDK. Corretto 23.0.2, 21.0.6, 17.0.14, 11.0.26, 8u442 are now available for download. Amazon Corretto is a no-cost, multi-platform, production-ready distribution of OpenJDK. You can download the updates from the Corretto home page or just type apt-get or yum update.

High-throughput mode for Amazon SNS FIFO Topics – Amazon SNS now supports high-throughput mode for SNS FIFO topics, with default throughput matching SNS standard topics across all Regions. When you enable high-throughput mode, SNS FIFO topics will maintain order within message group, while reducing the deduplication scope to the message-group level. With this change, you can leverage up to 30K messages per second (MPS) per account by default in US East (N. Virginia) Region, and 9K MPS per account in US West (Oregon) and Europe (Ireland) Regions, and request quota increases for additional throughput in any Region.

Amazon Connect agent workspace now supports audio optimization for Citrix and Amazon WorkSpaces virtual desktops – Amazon Connect agent workspace now supports the ability to redirect audio from Citrix and Amazon WorkSpaces Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) environments to a customer service agent’s local device. Audio redirection improves voice quality and reduces latency for voice calls handled on virtual desktops, providing a better experience for both end customers and agents.

Amazon Redshift announces support for History Mode for zero-ETL integrations – This new capability enables you to build Type 2 Slowly Changing Dimension (SCD 2) tables on your historical data from databases, out-of-the-box in Amazon Redshift, without writing any code. History mode simplifies the process of tracking and analyzing historical data changes, allowing you to gain valuable insights from your data’s evolution over time.

Finally, Amazon Bedrock has its own set of announcements. First, for anyone investing in retrieval-augmented generation, Bedrock now support multimodal content with Cohere Embed 3 Multilingual and Embed 3 English models. This enables you to create embeddings to not only index text, but also images.

Second, read Luma AI’s Ray2 visual AI model now available in Amazon Bedrock. Luma Ray2 is a large-scale video-generation model capable of creating realistic visuals with fluid, natural movement. With Luma Ray2 in Amazon Bedrock, you can generate production-ready video clips with seamless animations, ultrarealistic details, and logical event sequences with natural language prompts, removing the need for technical prompt engineering. Ray2 currently supports 5- and 9-second video generations with 540p and 720p resolution.

And finally, Amazon Bedrock Flows announces preview of multi-turn conversation support. Amazon Bedrock Flows enables you to link foundation models (FMs), Amazon Bedrock Prompts, Amazon Bedrock Agents, Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases, Amazon Bedrock Guardrails and other AWS services together to build and scale pre-defined generative AI workflows. This week, the team announced preview of multi-turn conversation support for agent nodes in Flows. This capability enables dynamic, back-and-forth conversations between users and flows, similar to a natural dialogue.

For a full list of AWS announcements, be sure to keep an eye on the What’s New at AWS page.

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That’s all for this week. Check back next Monday for another Weekly Roundup!

— seb

This post is part of our Weekly Roundup series. Check back each week for a quick roundup of interesting news and announcements from AWS!

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