DevOps Engineering on AWS — Update Research

Research objective: AWS service updates (What's New, Blogs, Amazon News, Lifecycle Changes, Security Bulletins) from the last 9 months relevant to the AWS services and concepts covered in Module 0 of DevOps Engineering on AWS.

Course context: Intermediate, 3-day classroom course for DevOps engineers/architects, operations engineers, system administrators, and developers. Objective: use DevOps cultural philosophies, practices, and tools to develop, deliver, and maintain applications and services at high velocity on AWS.

Topics researched: Module 0 is the course introduction — course objective, suggested prerequisites, and a breakdown of the course overview. No specific AWS technical service surface is covered in this module.

1. What's New 0 items

No new AWS service features to report — this module is introductory/logistical content rather than a technical AWS service.

2. Amazon News 0 items

Not applicable — no AWS service surface to research for this module.

3. Lifecycle Changes 0 items

Not applicable — no AWS service surface to research for this module.

4. Security Bulletins 0 items

Not applicable — no AWS service surface to research for this module.

Topics researched: What is DevOps?, the Amazon journey to DevOps (two-pizza teams, working backwards), foundations for DevOps (communication and collaboration, infrastructure as code, automation, monitoring and logging).

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1. What's New 5 items

AWS DevOps Agent

Introducing AWS DevOps Agent (preview), frontier agent for operational excellence | Blog (Dec 2, 2025)
AWS DevOps Agent is now generally available | Blog (Mar 31, 2026 — autonomous incident investigation built on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore)
AWS DevOps Agent & Security Agent GA — Weekly Roundup coverage (Apr 6, 2026)

Kiro (Agentic IDE)

Kiro reaches general availability ahead of AWS re:Invent 2025 (Nov 24, 2025 — spec-driven development, agent hooks, MCP support; relevant to Module 1's "foundations for DevOps" discussion of developer tooling)

AWS Well-Architected Framework — DevOps Guidance

The DevOps Sagas — AWS Well-Architected DevOps Guidance (ongoing reference update — core domains defining AWS's current DevOps capability model)

2. Amazon News 1 item

AWS CEO reveals the new tool transforming what developers build (re:Invent 2025 keynote coverage — AI shifting from answering questions to accomplishing tasks, framing for the Frontier Agents category including AWS DevOps Agent)

3. Lifecycle Changes 0 items

No deprecation, end-of-support, or discontinuation notices identified for the concepts covered in Module 1 (DevOps culture, two-pizza teams, foundational practices) in the research window.

4. Security Bulletins 0 items

No security bulletins specific to Module 1's conceptual content (DevOps philosophy, team structure, foundational practices) were identified in the research window.

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