AI BriefingAWS Weekly Briefing: AWS FinOps Agent Preview Launch, Gemma 4 Support in Bedrock, Kiro Pro Max, and More (June 15, 2026)
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AWS unveiled an agent preview for FinOps automation and launched new EC2 instances based on Graviton5.
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AWS unveiled the AWS FinOps Agent in preview to help optimize costs. This agent automates FinOps workflows such as answering cost questions, exploring optimization opportunities, and investigating cost anomalies. Notably, it can create Jira tickets based on recommendations from AWS Cost Optimization Hub and AWS Compute Optimizer, or share results via Slack when anomalies occur.
New Amazon EC2 M9g and M9gd instances have also reached general availability (GA). Powered by AWS Graviton5 processors, these instances deliver the following performance improvements over the previous generation:
- Compute performance: Up to 25% improvement over Graviton4
- Web applications: Up to 35% improvement
- Machine learning inference: Up to 35% improvement
- Databases: Up to 30% improvement
This release also introduces the Nitro Isolation Engine. Through formal verification, it provides mathematically proven isolation between virtual machines, making the AWS Nitro system the first formally verified cloud hypervisor.
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