AWS Weekly Roundup: NY Summit recap, Local Zone in Hanoi, Grok 4.3 in Bedrock, price reductions, and more (June 22, 2026)

This article summarizes AWS announcements from the week of June 22, 2026, highlighting AI agent innovations and infrastructure updates.

• AWS Summit NYC showcased agentic AI stack: agents for working, securing, building, and customer-created agents with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore enhancements
• AWS Local Zone launched in Hanoi, Vietnam with S3 and EBS Local Snapshots support for data residency
• Grok 4.3 model now available on Amazon Bedrock with tool calling and structured output support
• Amazon S3 Annotations enable attaching up to 1 GB of queryable context directly to objects for AI workflows
• Amazon ECS auto scaling improved 76% faster with high-resolution 20-second metrics
• Amazon EC2 G7 instances with NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell GPUs deliver 4.6x AI inference performance
• AWS Management Console Private Access enables console access from VPCs without internet connectivity
• AWS Marketplace Storefront GA and professional services listing fee reduced from 2.5% to 0.5%
• Amazon S3 Vectors query charges reduced up to 80%; GameLift Servers offers free network bandwidth

The roundup highlights AWS's focus on agentic AI, infrastructure expansion, and cost optimization across multiple services.