Last week, I visited AWS Hong Kong User Group with my team. Hong Kong has a small but strong community, and their energy and passion are high. They recently started a new AI user group, and we hope more people will join. I was able to strengthen my bond with the community through great food and conversation.
This week, I’ll first take a closer look at some of the key launches.
AWS DevOps Agent and Security Agent GA
At the last re:Invent, we introduced the concept of frontier agents that work autonomously across multiple steps to achieve outcomes, operating continuously until the job is done. The first two—AWS DevOps Agent and AWS Security Agent—are now generally available after the preview.
AWS DevOps Agent helps you run cloud operations—investigating incidents, reducing time to resolution, and preventing issues before they happen. Customers like United Airlines, Western Governors University, and T-Mobile are already using DevOps Agent to accelerate incident response and simplify operations at scale. At WGU, resolution time dropped from hours to minutes, and in preview customers report up to 75% lower MTTR and 3 to 5 times faster resolution. Learn more in Sébastien’s preview blog post and GA announcement.
AWS Security Agent brings continuous, context-aware penetration testing into the development lifecycle. This agent operates like a human penetration tester. Customers including LG CNS, HENNGE, and Wayspring are seeing strong results. At LG CNS, teams estimate over 50% faster testing and ~30% lower costs, along with significantly fewer false positives. Learn more in Esra’s preview blog post and GA announcement.
Both are designed to work across AWS cloud, multicloud, and on-prem environments. You can have an always-available teammate that can handle the heavy lifting, so you can focus on what matters most.
AWS Service Availability Updates
When the availability of an AWS service or feature changes, we provide customers guidance in AWS Product Lifecycle Changes on available alternatives and support for migration so that disruptions to your operations are minimized. The following lifecycle changes were updated on March 31, 2026.
- Availability change guide for services in maintenance
- AWS App Runner
- AWS Audit Manager
- AWS CloudTrail – Lake
- AWS Glue – Ray jobs
- AWS IoT FleetWise
- Amazon Application Recovery Controller (ARC) – Readiness Check
- Amazon Comprehend – Topic Modeling, Event Detection, and Prompt Safety Classification
- Amazon Rekognition – Streaming Events and Batch Image Content Moderation
- Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) – Message Data Protection (MDP)
- Availability change guide for services in sunset:
- Services reaching in sunset:
- Amazon Chime SDK – Proxy Sessions
We understand that changes in availability can impact your operations. For specific guidance, consult the relevant service documentation or contact AWS Support.
Last week’s launches
Here are last week’s launches that caught my attention:
- Amazon ECS announces Managed Daemons for ECS Managed Instances
- New AWS Sustainability console: Scope 1–3 reporting in one place
- Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Evaluations is now generally available
- AWS Transform custom announces general availability of automated codebase analysis
- Amazon CloudWatch launches OpenTelemetry Container Insights for Amazon EKS (Preview)
- New compute-optimized instance bundles for Amazon Lightsail with up to 72 vCPUs
- Amazon CloudFront now supports SHA-256 for signed URLs and signed cookies
For a full list of AWS announcements, be sure to keep an eye on the What’s New with AWS page.
Additional updates
Here are some additional news items that you might find interesting:
- Architecting for agentic AI development on AWS
- Optimizing data transfer costs when using AWS Network Load Balancer
- Announcing AWS World Sports Innovation Cup – Will your idea change the game?
- 5 Techniques to Stop AI agent hallucinations in production
- Explore the global AWS Community through a 3D interactive globe
For a full list of AWS blog posts, be sure to keep an eye on the AWS Blogs page.
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That’s all for this week. Check back next Monday for another Weekly Roundup!
— Channy