DynamoDB Does Vectors Now, Because Of Course It Does

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

Links: 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 Twelve AWS bulletins, mostly AI tooling From weeks to minutes: How Formula 1® uses agentic AI on AWS to accelerate data operations