☁️ AWS Daily Digest · August 11, 2026
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1. Amazon DynamoDB now supports real-time vector search at any scale
Database · AWS Blog
Amazon DynamoDB now supports real-time vector search at any scale, allowing for similarity searches directly against operational data. This benefits applications that require fast and scalable search capabilities, such as recommendation engines and image classification. Vector indexes have no storage limits and scale horizontally as data grows.
2. Amazon RDS for MariaDB now supports MariaDB 12.3
Database · AWS What's New
Amazon RDS for MariaDB now supports MariaDB 12.3, the latest Long-Term Support release, which includes Oracle TO_DATE() function compatibility and improved query optimizer performance. This update benefits customers migrating applications from Oracle to MariaDB, as well as those seeking improved query performance.
3. Introducing self-managed Amazon S3 buckets for AWS Lambda function code
Compute · AWS Compute Blog
AWS Lambda now supports self-managed Amazon S3 buckets for function code, eliminating the 75 GB code storage limit and giving customers full security control. This benefits customers managing Lambda functions at scale, who can now apply their own encryption and access controls to their code.
4. Low-latency, high-throughput SQS event processing with AWS Lambda provisioned mode
Compute · AWS Compute Blog
AWS Lambda provisioned mode now supports low-latency, high-throughput SQS event processing, allowing customers to meet demanding requirements for event-driven applications. This benefits use cases such as real-time payment processing, fraud detection, and IoT telemetry pipelines, which require low-latency message processing and high-concurrency execution.
5. LocateAnything-3B, Qwen-AgentWorld-35B-A3B, and Qwen3.5-122B-A10B models now available on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart
AI/ML · AWS What's New
Amazon SageMaker JumpStart now offers LocateAnything-3B, Qwen-AgentWorld-35B-A3B, and Qwen3.5-122B-A10B models, expanding the portfolio of foundation models available to AWS customers. These models bring specialized capabilities for visual grounding, agent environment simulation, and large-scale multimodal reasoning, enabling customers to deploy high-performance AI solutions.
6. NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning model is now available on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart
AI/ML · AWS What's New
NVIDIA's Nemotron 3.5 Lightning model is now available on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart, providing the fastest open model in its class for persistent agent workloads and rapid task execution. This benefits enterprise automation use cases such as personal assistants, financial document processing, and cybersecurity triage, which require high-throughput and fast task completion.
7. Runtime instances: persistent compute for production AI agents on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
AI/ML · AWS Blog
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore now offers runtime instances with persistent compute for production AI agents, providing a fully managed environment for invocations that can run for up to 8 hours. This benefits AI workloads that require stateful workflows, coordination between agents, and access to GPUs or the underlying OS.
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