AWS Morning Brief for the week of August 10th, with Corey Quinn.

Links:

• Amazon ECR now supports image layers up to 200 GB
• AWS Lambda announces scalable network bandwidth up to 3,000 Mbps for functions outside a VPC
• AWS Security Hub Extended adds supply chain security as its 10th category
• OpenAI GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna now support 1 million token context windows on Amazon Bedrock
• How to understand and estimate combined AWS WAF and AWS Shield Advanced costs
• Amazon DynamoDB now supports real-time vector search at any scale
• Runtime instances: persistent compute for production AI agents on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
• Amazon Connect Service Quota Monitor
• Enforcing data residency with single-Region Claude Code on Amazon Bedrock
• Reintroducing Network Firewall Proxy for Secure Egress Connectivity
• AWS Supports Agent Plugins: An Open Standard for Portable Agent Extensions
• Introducing Dogwood: runtime verification for AI agents
• AWS partners with Anthropic and OpenAI to bring AWS Continuum into developer workflows
• Caching KMS data keys in multi-thread environments: Per-tenant encryption for event-driven systems at scale
• Access Amazon S3 backup data directly using S3 Access Points in AWS Backup
• Twelve AWS bulletins, mostly AI tooling
• From weeks to minutes: How Formula 1® uses agentic AI on AWS to accelerate data operations