AWS Weekly Roundup: Builder Center Mobile App, Connect Talent, Corretto 27, and New EC2 & Beanstalk Features

The AWS Builder Center is now available as a mobile app on iOS and Android, extending access to trending articles, courses, and workshops. It also introduces a 'Polls' feature, allowing users to ask and answer community questions directly from the app's home feed.

Amazon Connect Talent is an AI-powered hiring solution for talent acquisition teams managing hiring at scale. It uses AI agents to conduct structured voice interviews, administer evidence-based assessments, and consistently score candidates.

Amazon Corretto 27, a Feature Release version of OpenJDK, is now available for download on Linux, Windows, and macOS, with support through April 2027. Notable features include G1 as the default garbage collector and post-quantum hybrid key exchange for TLS 1.3.

Kimi K3 by Moonshot AI is now available on Amazon Bedrock for coding and knowledge work. It combines native vision capabilities with a 1-million-token context window, making it suitable for long-running coding sessions and multi-document analysis.

Amazon EC2 T8i instances, powered by custom sixth-generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors, deliver up to 30% better price performance over previous-generation T3 instances. They are designed for low-to-moderate CPU utilization workloads such as microservices and development environments.

AWS Elastic Beanstalk Cluster Mode is a new fully managed option for teams running multiple applications on shared Amazon EKS infrastructure. This mode reduces per-application cost as the portfolio grows, offering production-grade deployment strategies and autoscaling.