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DynamoDB Does Vectors Now, Because Of Course It Does
Episode 732
Monday, 10 August, 2026

AWS Morning Brief for the week of August 10th, with Corey Quinn. Links:Amazon ECR now supports image layers up to 200 GBAWS Lambda announces scalable network bandwidth up to 3,000 Mbps for functions outside a VPCAWS Security Hub Extended adds supply chain security as its 10th categoryOpenAI GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna now support 1 million token context windows on Amazon BedrockHow to understand and estimate combined AWS WAF and AWS Shield Advanced costsAmazon DynamoDB now supports real-time vector search at any scaleRuntime instances: persistent compute for production AI agents on Amazon Bedrock AgentCoreAmazon Connect Service Quota MonitorEnforcing data residency with single-Region Claude Code on Amazon BedrockReintroducing Network Firewall Proxy for Secure Egress ConnectivityAWS Supports Agent Plugins: An Open Standard for Portable Agent ExtensionsIntroducing Dogwood: runtime verification for AI agentsAWS partners with Anthropic and OpenAI to bring AWS Continuum into developer workflowsCaching KMS data keys in multi-thread environments: Per-tenant encryption for event-driven systems at scaleAccess Amazon S3 backup data directly using S3 Access Points in AWS BackupTwelve AWS bulletins, mostly AI toolingFrom weeks to minutes: How Formula 1® uses agentic AI on AWS to accelerate data operations