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

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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
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