Agents, Plugins, and AgentCore: AWS Has an AI Naming Problem

AWS Morning Brief for the week of February 23rd, with Corey Quinn.

Links:

• Amazon Bedrock expands support for AWS PrivateLink
• AWS CloudWatch Alarm Mute Rules eliminate alert fatigue
• Amazon EC2 supports nested virtualization on virtual Amazon EC2 instances
• Announcing Amazon DocumentDB long-term support (LTS) on 5.0
• AWS Certificate Manager updates default certificate validity to comply with new guidelines
• Claude Sonnet 4.6 now available in Amazon Bedrock
• Kiro is now available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
• Amazon EC2 Hpc8a Instances powered by 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors are now available
• Introducing VPC encryption controls: Enforce encryption in transit within and across VPCs in a Region
• Migrating from AWS App Runner to Amazon ECS Express Mode
• Introducing Agent Plugins for AWS
• Build unified intelligence with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
• Reduce unexpected AWS costs: Tracing AWS billing charges with log correlation techniques