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

This article summarizes AWS announcements from the week of November 9, 2026, highlighting new features that minimize disruption to existing workloads.

• AgentCore Runtime V2 offers elastic memory, faster cold starts (P75 ~2 seconds), and lower costs through snapshots and on-demand paging
• S3 Tables enables managed migration of Hive tables to Apache Iceberg in three steps without stopping production writes
• DynamoDB bulk put items loads S3 data into existing tables asynchronously with per-record condition expressions and lower costs
• Web Answer tool provides synthesized, cited answers to natural-language questions via AgentCore Gateway
• Lambda now supports queue mode for Apache Kafka, enabling parallel processing across partitions with at-least-once delivery
• AWS Interconnect preview offers private managed connections from Equinix data centers to AWS with 99.99% SLA
• Security Hub SBOM inventory displays software packages across EC2, ECR, and Lambda resources organization-wide

These updates emphasize non-disruptive adoption patterns, allowing customers to migrate and modernize without interrupting running workloads.