From Blackwell Ultra to "aws login": Chaos Reigns at Every Layer

AWS Morning Brief for the week of November 24th, with Corey Quinn.

Links:

• Announcing agreement EventBridge notifications for AWS Marketplace
• Network Load Balancers now support Weighted Target Groups
• AWS NAT Gateway now supports regional availability
• AWS Secrets Manager announces managed external secrets
• Accelerate infrastructure development with AWS CloudFormation intelligent authoring in IDEs
• AWS Cost Optimization Hub introduces Cost Efficiency metric to measure and track cloud cost efficiency
• AWS Lambda announces new tenant isolation mode to simplify building tenant-aware applications
• Introducing 18-Month Forecasting and Explainable AI Insights in AWS Cost Explorer
• Simplified developer access to AWS with ‘aws login
• Amazon DynamoDB now supports multi-attribute composite keys in global secondary indexes
• Simplify access to external services using AWS IAM Outbound Identity Federation
• Improve API discoverability with the new Amazon API Gateway Portal
• AWS Step Functions enhances Local Testing with TestState API
• Amazon CloudFront announces 3 new CloudFront Functions capabilities
• Recycle Bin adds support for Amazon EBS Volumes
• Announcing Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) version 8.0
• AWS Lambda adds support for Rust
• Introducing Amazon MWAA Serverless
• Introducing flat-rate pricing plans with no overages
• New Amazon Bedrock service tiers help you match AI workload performance with cost
• Amazon EC2 P6-B300 instances with NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra GPUs are now available
• Amazon ECR introduces archive storage class for rarely accessed container images
• New AWS Billing Transfer for centrally managing AWS billing and costs across multiple organizations