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AWS Weekly Roundup: AI agents, Hanoi Local Zone, Grok 4.3, price cuts

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AWS announced several new AI agent capabilities, including features for working, securing, and building code, with new deployments like the Hanoi Local Zone in Vietnam to meet data residency requirements. Several new models and tools were introduced on Amazon Bedrock, such as Grok 4.3 from xAI, and Amazon S3 now supports object annotations for AI agents. Additionally, AWS detailed price reductions on services like S3 Vectors and GameLift Servers, alongside enhancements to ECS auto scaling and EC2 G7 instances.

  • →New AI agents for productivity, security, and development
  • →Amazon Bedrock AgentCore GA and new model availability
  • →Hanoi Local Zone supports data residency with S3 and EBS local snapshots
  • →Amazon S3 annotations add queryable context to objects
  • →EC2 G7 instances powered by NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell GPUs
Features (5) ›
  • New AI agents for productivity, security, and development

    AWS unveiled new AI agent capabilities focused on work, security, and code development. Features include autonomous agents in Amazon Quick, proactive security with AWS Continuum, and enhanced DevOps tooling with Kiro and AWS Transform.

  • Amazon Bedrock AgentCore GA and new model availability

    Amazon Bedrock AgentCore is now generally available with enhanced infrastructure and orchestration, including Web Search and AWS Context service. Grok 4.3 from xAI is also available on Bedrock, offering improved reasoning and tool-calling capabilities.

  • Hanoi Local Zone supports data residency with S3 and EBS local snapshots

    A new AWS Local Zone in Hanoi, Vietnam, offers support for Amazon S3 and Amazon EBS Local Snapshots, enabling customers to store and back up data locally to meet data residency requirements.

  • Amazon S3 annotations add queryable context to objects

    Amazon S3 now allows attaching up to 1 GB of mutable, queryable context directly to objects, designed to assist AI agents and autonomous workflows in discovering and acting on data.

  • EC2 G7 instances powered by NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell GPUs

    AWS launches EC2 G7 instances accelerated by NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs, delivering significant performance gains for AI inference and graphics workloads compared to G6 instances.

Enhancements (3) ›
  • Faster auto scaling for Amazon ECS services

    Amazon ECS service auto scaling now provides faster response to load changes with high resolution (20-second) metrics, improving scale-out trigger times and task provisioning.

  • AWS Management Console Private Access for air-gapped environments

    Customers can now access the AWS Management Console from VPCs without internet connectivity, enhancing security for managing AWS infrastructure in air-gapped environments.

  • AWS Marketplace Storefront now generally available

    AWS Partners can now create and deploy branded catalogs of their solutions and services, simplifying business management and customer discovery for AWS Marketplace participants.

Read the original announcement →

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-weekly-roundup-ny-summit-recap-local-zone-in-hanoi-grok-4-3-in-bedrock-price-reductions-and-more-june-22-2026/

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