☁️ AWS Daily Digest · August 12, 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 users to store vector embeddings alongside operational data. This matters for developers building applications that require fast and scalable similarity searches. Vector indexes have no storage limits and scale horizontally as data grows.
2. Amazon EC2 R8a instances are now available in Canada (Central) region
Compute · AWS What's New
Amazon EC2 R8a instances are now available in the Canada (Central) region, featuring 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors with up to 30% higher performance. This benefits customers running latency-sensitive workloads, such as business-critical applications. R8a instances deliver 45% more memory bandwidth compared to R7a instances.
3. Amazon Bedrock expands IAM principal cost allocation to the bedrock-mantle endpoint
AI/ML · AWS What's New
Amazon Bedrock has expanded IAM principal cost allocation to the bedrock-mantle endpoint, enabling customers to attribute inference costs across users, teams, and applications. This matters for organizations needing to track and manage AI costs. Customers can tag IAM users and roles with attributes like team or project for cost allocation.
4. LocateAnything-3B, Qwen-AgentWorld-35B-A3B, and Qwen3.5-122B-A10B models now available on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart
AI/ML · AWS What's New
LocateAnything-3B, Qwen-AgentWorld-35B-A3B, and Qwen3.5-122B-A10B models are now available on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart, expanding the portfolio of foundation models for AWS customers. These models bring specialized capabilities for visual grounding, agent environment simulation, and multimodal reasoning, benefiting customers deploying high-performance AI solutions.
5. 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. This benefits customers in domains like personal assistants, financial document processing, and cybersecurity triage. Nemotron 3.5 Lightning achieves up to 4x the throughput and 30% faster task completion over comparable models.
6. 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 matters for organizations managing Lambda functions at scale, as it reduces quota pressure and allows for custom encryption and access controls.
7. 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 users to store vector embeddings alongside operational data. This matters for developers building applications that require fast and scalable similarity searches. Vector indexes have no storage limits and scale horizontally as data grows.
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