AWS Weekly Roundup: AgentCore Runtime V2, Amazon DynamoDB bulk put items, and more (November 9, 2026)

Summary

• Amazon S3 Tables now enable migration of Hive tables to Apache Iceberg in three steps without stopping production writes, supporting Athena, SageMaker Unified Studio, and Iceberg REST API engines.
• Amazon DynamoDB supports bulk loading of line-delimited JSON or Amazon Ion files from S3 into existing tables via managed asynchronous jobs with dedicated system capacity.
• Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime V2 offers elastic memory usage and reduced cold starts by snapshotting environments, available in 10 Regions with a platformVersion setting of V2.
• Web Answer is a new Bedrock AgentCore tool that synthesizes cited answers via parallel searches, attachable to AgentCore Gateway with domain and date filters.
• AWS Lambda supports queues for self-managed Apache Kafka event sources to process records from a single partition across multiple parallel invocations using Kafka share groups.
• AWS Interconnect provides a last-mile preview with Equinix for private managed connections from 282 data centers to AWS, featuring quad-redundant capacity and MACsec encryption.
• AWS Security Hub now includes an SBOM inventory for EC2 instances, ECR images, and Lambda functions showing package versions and resource counts at no additional cost.
• AWS contributed a binary log optimization to community MySQL that reduces commit latency for large transactions by spilling files instead of copying them.
• OrderServ achieved 64% cost savings by migrating from one ECS cluster per brand to a multi-tenant ECS setup on EC2 Auto Scaling groups with warm pools.
• AWS re:Invent is scheduled for November 30 to December 4 in Las Vegas with an open event catalog and reserved seating.
• Upcoming AWS Community Days include events in Belém, Brazil on November 14, JAWS FESTA 2026 in Akita, Japan on November 17, and Port Harcourt, Nigeria on December 12.