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AWS Config Just Added 30 Resource Types. The Bedrock AgentCore Ones Matter Most.

• Stephen Jones
• Aws , Ai , Security

AWS quietly announced support for 30 new resource types in AWS Config on March 2, 2026. If you’re the kind of person who skims these announcements and moves on, I get it. Most Config resource type expansions are incremental. This one isn’t.

AWS ACM Certificate Validity Change: 198-Day Certificates & the Road to 47 Days

On 18 February 2026, AWS quietly updated ACM to reduce the default validity of public certificates from 395 days to 198 days. If you’re running anything on AWS that terminates TLS — CloudFront distributions, Application Load Balancers, API Gateway endpoints, Elastic Beanstalk — this affects you.

Is Infrastructure as Code the Next Abstraction to Fall?

I’ve been staring at a Terraform module for the last ten minutes, and I can’t stop thinking about a question that would have been absurd two years ago: why am I writing this?

AWS Bedrock Open-Weight Models in Sydney: Australian AI Sovereignty

If you’ve been building AI workloads in Australia, you’ve felt the frustration. The models you want to use are sitting in US regions. Your compliance team is asking where inference data is being processed. And every API call is adding 180-200ms of network latency before the model even starts thinking. Run a five-step agentic workflow and you’re adding a full second of pure network overhead before any model computation happens.