Latest AWS Updates

Amazon SNS now supports message payloads up to 1 MiB

Amazon SNS increases message payload size limit from 256 KiB to 1 MiB, allowing up to four times larger messages to be published to topics

• Amazon SNS

AWS RTB Fabric now supports configurable Availability Zone affinity

AWS RTB Fabric now allows configuration of responder gateway Availability Zone affinity, enabling client routing policies to prioritize the requester's zone or utilize all zones spanned by the gateway.

AWS Resilience Hub adds three new capabilities

AWS Resilience Hub now supports EKS labels, dependency insights, and policy sharing via AWS Organizations, enabling better resource scoping, risk identification, and cross-account policy management.

Amazon ECS Express Mode now supports AWS Graviton (ARM64) workloads

Amazon ECS Express Mode now allows specifying ARM64 as the CPU architecture, enabling easy deployment of ARM-based container images on AWS Graviton-powered compute.

• Amazon ECS
• AWS Fargate

AWS Continuum now supports credential testing and accessible domain suggestions

AWS Continuum proactively secures applications throughout the development lifecycle. Developers and security teams can now test login credentials and receive suggested domains before a penetration test runs

AWS HealthOmics now supports IAM session policies

AWS HealthOmics now supports IAM session policies, allowing you to dynamically restrict permissions for individual runs without creating and managing multiple IAM roles.

AWS Transfer Family now supports source IP preservation for SFTP servers behind a Network Load Balancer (NLB)

AWS Transfer Family now preserves client source IP addresses using Proxy Protocol v2 (PPv2) when a Network Load Balancer (NLB) is placed in front of an SFTP server using a VPC-hosted endpoint, enabling IP-based auditing, access controls, and compliance.

• Elastic Load Balancing
• AWS Transfer Family

Amazon SES now supports tenant-level deliverability insights

Amazon SES's Virtual Deliverability Manager now offers tenant-level deliverability insights, enabling monitoring of metrics for each tenant

Amazon S3 Express One Zone is now available in 7 additional AWS Regions

Amazon S3 Express One Zone offers high-performance, single-digit millisecond data access with up to 10x faster speeds and 80% lower request costs compared to S3 Standard

• Amazon S3

AWS Elastic Beanstalk introduces Cluster Mode to run multiple applications on shared infrastructure

AWS Elastic Beanstalk now offers Cluster Mode, enabling multiple applications to run on shared infrastructure using Amazon EKS, reducing per-application compute costs with features like event-driven autoscaling, OpenTelemetry observability, and default HTTPS.

Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) is now generally available in 11 additional Regions

Amazon Keyspaces is a scalable, highly available, managed Apache Cassandra-compatible database service. It is now generally available in 11 additional Regions, enabling lower-latency Cassandra-compatible application development.

• Amazon Keyspaces

Amazon ECS deployment observability for Amazon ECS Managed Daemons now available in AWS Management Console

Amazon ECS now offers a consolidated deployment view for Managed Daemons in the AWS Management Console, enabling users to monitor deployment progress and issues from a single place

Amazon SageMaker AI now supports serverless model customization for NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning

Amazon SageMaker AI introduces serverless model customization for the NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning model, allowing users to tailor it with proprietary data to reduce costs and latency.

Amazon Corretto 27 is now generally available

Amazon Corretto 27 is now available for Linux, Windows, and macOS, supported through April 2027, featuring G1 as the default garbage collector, post-quantum hybrid key exchange for TLS 1.3, compact object headers, and in-process data redaction for JFR.

Amazon Quick now generates individual sheets and builds analyses from an image

Amazon Quick expands Generate Analysis with new capabilities to create dashboards faster using natural language or images

AWS Builder Center now available as mobile app on iOS and Android

AWS Builder Center mobile app lets builders browse trending articles, access 600+ AWS Skill Builder courses, and manage hands-on workshops with free sandbox environments directly from their mobile devices

Amazon Connect Customer now enables creating, managing, and searching custom metrics via APIs

Amazon Connect Customer introduces new APIs for consistent, programmatic management of custom metrics, eliminating manual drift and enabling automatic dashboard updates

• Amazon Connect

Amazon ECS extends Amazon S3 Files support to the Amazon EC2 compute type

Amazon ECS now supports Amazon S3 Files for tasks running on Amazon EC2, enabling direct access to S3 data without code changes or data duplication.

AWS Elemental MediaTailor Monetization Functions adds ad response hooks

AWS Elemental MediaTailor now supports two additional lifecycle hooks for monetization functions, enhancing flexibility in ad personalization and insertion.

Amazon Connect Customer can now import evaluation form PDFs using AI

Amazon Connect Customer now allows managers to import a PDF of an evaluation form from a third-party quality management application and automatically recreate it in Connect using AI, simplifying migration of existing quality programs.

• Amazon Connect

Amazon Connect Customer custom metrics now supports tag-based access control

Amazon Connect Customer custom metrics now support tag-based access control, allowing teams to manage their own metrics while restricting others to view-only access.

• Amazon Connect

Amazon WorkSpaces adds support for NVIDIA Blackwell GPU instances

Amazon WorkSpaces Personal and Core now support Graphics G7 bundles with NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs and Intel Xeon 6 processors, delivering up to 2.1x better performance for graphics-intensive workloads

• Amazon WorkSpaces

AWS launches new experience to help builders get started and ship faster

AWS introduces a simplified onboarding experience that reduces setup effort and automates initial project configuration, allowing developers to implement their ideas immediately with sensible defaults and integrated guidance.

• AWS IAM

AWS Step Functions adds new AWS service integrations automatically, starting with AWS Lambda MicroVMs

AWS Step Functions now automatically adds AWS SDK integrations for new AWS services and capabilities within weeks of their release, starting with AWS Lambda MicroVMs, enabling immediate orchestration of the latest AWS services from workflows.

• AWS Step Functions

Monitor cost anomalies directly in Billing and Cost Management Dashboards with the new Detected Anomalies widget

AWS Billing and Cost Management Dashboards now include a Detected Anomalies widget, allowing finance and cloud teams to view cost anomalies alongside usage, budgets, efficiency, and Savings Plans/RI coverage in one place

AWS STS simplifies session token size limits and adds session token size monitoring

AWS STS now enforces a single 4,096-byte size limit on session tokens and returns response elements indicating token size and utilization, enabling larger combinations of session policies and tags.

Amazon Connect Customer now enables agents to bid on preferred shifts

Amazon Connect Customer introduces shift bidding for agents, improving schedule control and efficiency. Agents rank preferred shifts, and the system automates assignments based on rankings.

• Amazon Connect

Analyze your CloudTrail events using natural language in Amazon Q Console

AWS CloudTrail now integrates with Amazon Q Console, enabling natural language investigation of AWS account activity, including CloudTrail configuration checks, security investigations, and operational troubleshooting.

• AWS CloudTrail

Amazon SageMaker AI now supports instance preference lists for training and processing jobs

Amazon SageMaker AI introduces instance preference lists for training and processing jobs, simplifying compute capacity acquisition and enabling jobs to start sooner by allowing prioritized instance type selections.

AWS Billing Conductor now supports custom rates and usage tier pricing configurations

AWS Billing Conductor now allows defining custom rates and usage tiers via SKU-scoped pricing rules, enabling precise control over pro forma billing without percentage-based markups.

AWS Glue zero-ETL now captures archived Salesforce records

AWS Glue zero-ETL captures archived Salesforce records in target tables, providing a complete replica of Salesforce data for analytics and reporting. Existing pipelines run uninterrupted while the isArchived field is accurately populated.

• AWS Glue

Gemma-4-31B-it-assistant and Gemma-4-31B-IT-NVFP4 models now available on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart

Amazon SageMaker JumpStart now includes Google DeepMind's Gemma-4-31B-it-assistant and NVIDIA's Gemma-4-31B-IT-NVFP4 models, expanding the portfolio of foundation models for AWS customers.

Ministral-3-3B-Instruct-2512 and Ministral-3-8B-Instruct-2512 models now available on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart

Amazon SageMaker JumpStart now offers Mistral AI's Ministral-3 series 3B and 8B models, designed for edge deployment with vision capabilities, enabling high-performance AI solutions in resource-constrained environments.

NVIDIA's Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-NVFP4 and Alibaba's Wan2.1-T2V-1.3B-Diffusers models now available on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart

Amazon SageMaker JumpStart now offers NVIDIA's Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-NVFP4 and Alibaba's Wan2.1-T2V-1.3B-Diffusers models, providing agentic coding with long-context reasoning and lightweight text-to-video generation capabilities.

AWS End User Messaging enhances SMS deliverability with automatic failover

AWS End User Messaging adds automatic failover for SMS delivery via phone pools, rerouting traffic to the next best number when disruptions occur

• Amazon Pinpoint

AWS End User Messaging now supports Dynamic Flows in WhatsApp

AWS End User Messaging now supports dynamic WhatsApp flows, enabling interactive experiences like appointment booking and surveys directly in chat

AWS HealthOmics now publishes real-time run metrics to Amazon CloudWatch

AWS HealthOmics now publishes real-time run metrics to Amazon CloudWatch, providing visibility into workflow resource utilization during execution. This helps identify CPU/GPU bottlenecks and detect memory or storage exhaustion before tasks fail.

Amazon EC2 X2idn instances are now available in Asia Pacific (Hong Kong)

Amazon EC2 X2idn instances, powered by 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors and AWS Nitro System, are now available in the Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) Region for memory-intensive workloads

• Amazon EC2

AWS Elemental MediaLive enables frame-accurate pipeline locking for streams without timecode

AWS Elemental MediaLive now supports Video Aligned Locking, allowing frame-accurate synchronization of video pipelines without timecode, enabling precise input switching across standard and cross-region single-pipeline channels.

AWS Lambda now supports direct read configuration for Amazon S3 Files

AWS Lambda now supports direct read configuration for Amazon S3 Files, allowing you to choose whether your functions read from S3 Files high-performance storage or your S3 bucket, optimizing throughput and latency based on your application needs.

Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base now supports multimodal embeddings for video, audio, and image content with TwelveLabs Marengo 3.0

Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base now supports TwelveLabs Marengo 3.0, enabling multimodal embeddings for video, audio, and image content by directly encoding visual scenes and speech, capturing meaning beyond transcription.

• Amazon Quick

Amazon SageMaker HyperPod now supports model caching for faster inference autoscaling and reduced cold starts

Amazon SageMaker HyperPod now generally available with model caching, reducing cold starts for LLM inference by pre-loading model weights and container images, achieving up to 60% faster scale-out

• Amazon SageMaker

Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio now supports ODBC connections for Microsoft Power BI and other analytics tools

Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio now supports ODBC connections, enabling Microsoft Power BI and other ODBC-compatible tools to directly access governed data in SageMaker Unified Studio projects using the Amazon Athena ODBC driver

• Amazon SageMaker
• Amazon Athena

Announcing second-generation single-rack AWS Outposts

AWS announces the general availability of second-generation single-rack AWS Outposts, delivering up to 2,688 vCPU and 100 TB of Amazon EBS storage in a single 42U rack for low-latency workloads in space-constrained locations.

• AWS Outposts

Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports Supplemental Patch Bundle for July 2026 Release Update

Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports the Supplemental Patch Bundle for the July 2026 Release Update for Oracle Database versions 19c and 26ai, allowing upgrades of existing instances and use of AWS Organizations upgrade rollout policy for automatic minor version upgrades

• Amazon RDS

Amazon Redshift RG instances now available in Europe (Zurich) Region

Amazon Redshift RG instances, powered by AWS Graviton processors, are now available in the Europe (Zurich) Region, delivering up to 2.4x faster performance and 30% lower price per vCPU compared to RA3 instances.

• Amazon Redshift

Amazon ECS expands IAM condition key support for RunTask and StartTask APIs

Amazon ECS now supports CPU and memory resource IAM condition keys on RunTask and StartTask APIs, enabling consistent resource limits across all ECS task launch methods

Amazon OpenSearch Serverless is now available on v0 by Vercel

Amazon OpenSearch Serverless is now available on Vercel's v0, enabling users to build full-stack search and AI applications using natural language prompts

• Amazon OpenSearch Service

Amazon MQ now supports RabbitMQ 4.3

Amazon MQ adds support for RabbitMQ 4.3, introducing quorum queue enhancements, bug fixes, and memory management improvements

• Amazon MQ

AWS Lambda Durable Functions integrates with Pydantic AI

AWS Lambda Durable Functions now integrates with Pydantic AI, an open-source framework for building AI agents in Python, enabling interruption recovery without custom checkpoint or retry logic.

• AWS Lambda

AWS Lambda recursive loop detection is now available in Europe Sovereign Cloud

AWS Lambda recursive loop detection is now available in the Europe Sovereign Cloud. Enabled by default, it automatically detects and stops recursive invocations between Lambda functions and supported services, preventing unexpected billing from unintended loops.

• AWS Lambda

AWS Marketplace sellers now receive qualified demo and private offer requests in minutes

AWS Marketplace sellers with demo or private offer buttons enabled can now act on customer requests within minutes, as AWS automatically qualifies leads and creates opportunities with defined use cases in Partner Central.

• AWS Marketplace

Amazon Quick desktop app is now generally available on macOS and Windows

Amazon Quick now offers a desktop app for macOS and Windows, syncing conversations, context, and agents across devices and running agents in the background for continuous progress.

• Amazon Quick

Amazon Quick activity feed now available on iOS and Android mobile devices

Amazon Quick provides a mobile app with an activity feed, enabling access to critical enterprise communications and tools from anywhere, while maintaining context across desktop and mobile with no additional cost.

• Amazon Quick

Amazon Quick adds always-on agents, a sharper feed, and enterprise controls

Amazon Quick now features always-on agents that run scheduled tasks and monitoring in the cloud, delivering results even when your laptop is closed, along with an enhanced activity feed and enterprise controls for better organization and governance.

• Amazon Quick

Amazon EVS is now available in more regions

Amazon EVS allows you to run VMware Cloud Foundation on AWS bare-metal instances, enabling rapid migration of existing VMware workloads to AWS.

AWS Storage Gateway now supports FIPS-compliant private connectivity for Amazon S3 File Gateway

AWS Storage Gateway now supports FIPS 140-3 validated endpoints over AWS PrivateLink for Amazon S3 File Gateway, enabling easier use for regulated workloads.

• Amazon S3
• AWS PrivateLink
• AWS Storage Gateway

AWS Elemental introduces Dynamic Multiview for live video

AWS Elemental MediaPackage now offers Dynamic Multiview, enabling content providers to deliver multi-angle, multi-game, and personalized viewing experiences as standard HLS and DASH streams without custom player development

AWS Elemental MediaTailor now offers Yield Optimization to automatically fill ad breaks with Amazon Ads demand

AWS Elemental MediaTailor introduces yield optimization, automatically monetizing unused ad inventory with Amazon Ads during server-side ad insertion for live streams. Available exclusively to publishers in the Amazon Publisher Services Streaming TV program, it requires no additional cost or infrastructure.

Amazon CloudWatch now supports network health indicator for TGW inter-Region peering using synthetic monitors

Amazon CloudWatch Network Monitoring now allows you to determine if network performance issues on paths crossing AWS Transit Gateway inter-Region peering are caused by the AWS network

Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base adds APIs and console support for debugging document-level access control

Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base now provides APIs and console tools to debug document access control issues self-service

• Amazon Quick

AWS Lambda now supports 90-minute function timeout on Lambda Managed Instances

AWS Lambda extends the function timeout for asynchronous and event source mapping invocations on Lambda Managed Instances from 15 minutes to 90 minutes, enabling longer-running workloads like data processing and AI inference without re-architecting applications

AWS Lambda now supports Graviton5-powered EC2 instances on Lambda Managed Instances

AWS Lambda supports Graviton5-powered C9g, C9gd, M9g, and M9gd instances on Lambda Managed Instances, delivering up to 25% better compute performance compared to Graviton4-powered instances

• AWS Lambda

AWS Transform for .NET now generally available via CLI

AWS Transform for .NET is now available via a single-line CLI command, complementing existing experiences like the web app, Visual Studio IDE, Kiro Power, and MCP agents. It enables automated code modernization and performance optimization at scale

Amazon Connect Customer now allows setting specific capacity limits for different types of Tasks and Emails

Amazon Connect Customer enables contact center managers to classify Task and Email contacts into workload types based on complexity, priority, or business function, each with its own concurrency and interruption rules.

• Amazon Connect

Amazon Connect Customer Profiles now sends events when customers enter or exit segments

Amazon Connect Customer Profiles now sends segment membership events, enabling real-time and scheduled notifications when customer profiles enter or exit segments such as high-value or low-satisfaction customers.

• Amazon Connect

AWS Entity Resolution adds record-level confidence scores for ML matching

AWS Entity Resolution now provides record-level confidence scores for ML-based matching workflows, enabling customers to qualify more records for activation by applying differentiated thresholds.

• AWS Entity Resolution

AWS Private CA EKS add-on and Connector for AD now available in AWS GovCloud (US)

AWS Private CA now offers its Kubernetes Connector as an Amazon EKS add-on and its Active Directory Connector in AWS GovCloud (US) regions, expanding certificate automation capabilities for government workloads.

• Amazon EKS
• AWS Directory Service

Amazon EBS Volume Clones now supports copying volumes across accounts

Amazon EBS Volume Clones now supports cross-account copying with re-encryption, enabling secure data sharing between production and development environments and separate encryption keys for different accounts.

• Amazon EBS

Amazon API Gateway now supports mutual TLS for backend integrations

Amazon API Gateway enables mutual TLS for backend integrations with REST APIs, allowing the use of ACM certificates and supporting end-to-end mutual authentication.

• Amazon API Gateway

Amazon SageMaker Feature Store now supports individual feature updates to lower write latency

Amazon SageMaker Feature Store adds support for updating individual features in a record, allowing data scientists to modify one or more feature values in a single request without rewriting the entire record, reducing write latency and cost

• Amazon SageMaker

Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB 3 now supports custom plugins

Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB 3 allows running custom Python plugins on managed InfluxDB 3 Core and Enterprise editions, enabling custom data transformations and alerts close to the data.

• Amazon Timestream

AWS Systems Manager now diagnoses more issues that cause EC2 instances to be unmanaged

AWS Systems Manager extends its diagnosis capability to identify six additional categories of issues preventing Amazon EC2 instances and hybrid-activated nodes from being managed

• Amazon EC2
• AWS Systems Manager

Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base Now Supports Confluence Data Center as a Native Data Source Connector

Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base now allows direct crawling of blogs and pages from self-hosted Confluence Data Center instances, eliminating the need for custom ingestion pipelines

• Amazon Quick

AWS HealthOmics introduces resource fallback order for WDL workflows

AWS HealthOmics now allows users to define an ordered list of preferred accelerator types for tasks in WDL workflows, with an option to fallback to CPU instances when preferred accelerators are unavailable

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Memory now supports direct ingestion to long-term memory

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Memory now allows developers to submit content directly to long-term memory without persisting it as a short-term memory event, enabling independent use of long-term memory.

Amazon RDS for MariaDB now supports community MariaDB minor versions 10.6.28, 10.11.19, 11.4.13, 11.8.9, and 12.3.3

Amazon RDS for MariaDB supports the latest community versions, introducing post-quantum TLS key exchange and security enhancements

• Amazon RDS

AWS Transform now available in AWS GovCloud (US-West)

AWS Transform is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region, enabling government agencies and regulated organizations to plan and execute large-scale migrations to AWS. It automates server replication and cutover for VMware, bare metal, Hyper-V, and database workloads.

Amazon S3 Object Lock now supports variable retention with event holds

Amazon S3 Object Lock introduces event holds, allowing you to set object retention periods based on future events like contract closings or audit completions. Event holds protect objects for a specified duration after the hold is released.

• Amazon S3

AWS announces Nx Plugin for scaffolding full-stack applications

The AWS Nx Plugin provides templates for full-stack applications including AI agents, APIs, websites, and databases built with TypeScript and Python, defining infrastructure with AWS CDK or Terraform and including best practices like AWS WAF and X-Ray tracing.

Amazon CloudFront Dynamic Image Transformation adds four new features

Amazon CloudFront Dynamic Image Transformation now offers enhanced smart cropping, automatic optimization, and an interactive playground for testing transformations

• Amazon CloudFront

AWS Builder ID adds recovery options and multi-factor authentication for third-party logins

AWS Builder ID now offers recovery emails and MFA for all sign-in methods, including third-party logins

Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base introduces user-managed setup for SharePoint, OneDrive, and Confluence data sources

Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base now offers user-managed setup for SharePoint, OneDrive, and Confluence data sources, simplifying the configuration process

Amazon MWAA Serverless now available in AWS GovCloud (US)

Amazon MWAA Serverless is now available in AWS GovCloud (US-East) and AWS GovCloud (US-West). It automates Apache Airflow infrastructure management and scales compute resources on demand with a pay-per-use model.

• Amazon MWAA

Amazon GuardDuty adds optional threat detection rules

Amazon GuardDuty now offers custom detection rules with 35 prebuilt options for CloudTrail management events, expanding threat detection coverage without log ingestion or storage

• Amazon GuardDuty

AWS MCP Server adds serverless capability for AWS Lambda functions

AWS MCP Server enables code agents to efficiently diagnose Lambda functions and connected resources

Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base now supports automatic sync scheduling for data source connectors

Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base now offers automatic sync scheduling for data source connectors, ensuring AI agents always retrieve the most up-to-date information

Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base Now Supports ServiceNow as a Native Data Source Connector

Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base now allows direct connection to ServiceNow instances, enabling automatic crawling of knowledge articles and service catalog items without custom ingestion pipelines.

Amazon ECS introduces Early Success Criteria for service deployments

Amazon ECS now supports Early Success Criteria for rolling service deployments, allowing users to define when a deployment is considered successful based on healthy task percentages, enabling faster deployment completion and unlocking subsequent operations.

• Amazon ECS
• AWS Fargate

Amazon EC2 now allows specifying compatible instance types on AMIs

Amazon EC2 enables AMI owners to define which instance types are compatible with their AMIs, preventing launches on incompatible instances and reducing the risk of launch failures.

• Amazon EC2

Amazon EC2 M9g and M9gd instances are now available in four additional regions

Amazon EC2 M9g and M9gd instances are now available in Europe (Ireland) and Asia Pacific (Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo) regions, powered by AWS Graviton5 processors for enhanced performance and security in memory-intensive workloads.

• Amazon EC2

AWS Transfer Family SFTP Connectors now support continuing file transfers during credential rotation

AWS Transfer Family SFTP Connectors now continue file transfers while rotating credentials, automatically retrieving them from AWS Secrets Manager version stages without manual updates

Amazon EC2 P6-B200 instances now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) Region

Amazon EC2 now offers P6-B200 instances accelerated by NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs, delivering up to 2x performance over P5en instances for AI training and inference.

• Amazon EC2

Amazon EC2 C9g and C9gd instances now available in Asia Pacific (Tokyo) region

Amazon EC2 has launched C9g and C9gd instances powered by AWS Graviton5 processors in the Tokyo region, offering up to 25% better compute performance than previous Graviton4-based instances.

• Amazon EC2

Amazon EC2 P6-B300 instances now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region

Amazon EC2 introduces P6-B300 instances with 8xNVIDIA Blackwell Ultra GPUs and 2.1TB GPU memory, enhancing training and deployment of large-scale foundation models.

• Amazon EC2

Amazon ECS Managed Daemons now support non-critical daemons

Amazon ECS now allows configuration of non-critical managed daemons on ECS managed instances, ensuring mission-critical application tasks continue uninterrupted even when daemons fail, stop, or become unhealthy.

• Amazon ECS
• AWS Fargate

Amazon SageMaker AI Batch Transform Now Supports G6e Instances

Amazon SageMaker AI adds support for EC2 G6e instances in Batch Transform, enhancing performance for offline inference on large datasets

• Amazon SageMaker
• Amazon EC2

Amazon EC2 C8g instances now available in additional regions

Amazon EC2 C8g instances are now available in AWS Asia Pacific (Taipei, New Zealand) and AWS GovCloud (US-East) regions. Powered by AWS Graviton4 processors, these instances deliver up to 30% better performance compared to Graviton3-based instances.

• Amazon EC2

Amazon MWAA adds built-in monitoring with Amazon CloudWatch

Amazon MWAA now features a built-in monitoring experience with a CloudWatch metrics dashboard and alarms table, plus one-click creation of recommended alarms

• Amazon MWAA
• Amazon CloudWatch

Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio Workflows Supports Python and Bash Operators

Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio Workflows now supports PythonOperator and BashOperator, enabling custom Python functions and shell commands to run directly in serverless workflows

• Amazon SageMaker

Amazon Aurora MySQL 8.4.8 now generally available

Amazon Aurora MySQL now supports MySQL 8.4.8, adding PQ-TLS, transaction timeout, multi-source replication, and delayed replication features

• Amazon Aurora

Amazon Redshift rg.large instances now support single-node clusters

Amazon Redshift rg.large instances now support single-node clusters, offering a cost-effective option for smaller workloads that do not require high availability

• Amazon Redshift

Amazon WorkSpaces Applications adds support for NVIDIA Blackwell GPU instances

Amazon WorkSpaces Applications now supports Graphics G7 instances powered by NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs and Intel Xeon Scalable (6th Gen) processors, improving performance for graphics-intensive workloads.

• Amazon WorkSpaces

AWS Gateway Load Balancer now supports TCP Reset for faster failure recovery

AWS Gateway Load Balancer supports sending TCP Reset packets when a target becomes unhealthy or is deregistered, reducing traffic interruptions from minutes to seconds

• Elastic Load Balancing

Amazon Quick introduces Max plan, offering 5x usage and storage for power users

Amazon Quick now offers a Max plan, providing 5x the usage and storage of the Plus plan, enabling uninterrupted large-scale concurrent workloads throughout the month.

Amazon CloudFront announces API support for flat-rate pricing plans

Amazon CloudFront now allows customers to programmatically subscribe, manage, upgrade, downgrade, and cancel flat-rate pricing plans using AWS CLI, SDKs, CloudFormation, CDK, or the PricingPlanManager API

• Amazon CloudFront

AWS CloudFormation now supports contract tests v2 for resource types

AWS CloudFormation introduces contract tests v2 for resource types, adding deeper test scenarios and live-state verification to improve development cycles and early issue detection.

• AWS CloudFormation

AWS Transform announces general availability of Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP support

AWS Transform now generally available for Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP, enabling a single migration workflow for block storage workloads

Amazon SES now supports S/MIME email signing

Amazon SES now supports S/MIME signing, allowing recipients to verify email authenticity. By storing signing certificates in AWS Certificate Manager and enabling S/MIME signing for sender identities, messages are automatically signed during transmission

Amazon Linux 2027 now available in public preview

Amazon Linux introduces AL2027, enhancing security and performance for cloud-native workloads

AWS Config now supports 60 new resource types

AWS Config adds support for 60 new resource types across Amazon Bedrock, EC2, SageMaker, and AWS Organizations, enhancing coverage for resource discovery, assessment, auditing, and remediation

• AWS Config

Second-generation AWS Outposts racks now available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions

AWS Outposts allows workloads requiring low latency to on-premises systems to run locally while connecting back to the home Region for application management. Second-generation Outposts racks can now be ordered connected to AWS GovCloud (US-East) and AWS GovCloud (US-West) Regions.

• AWS Outposts

Amazon Connect Customer announces general availability of agentic CX designer

Amazon Connect Customer now generally available with agentic CX designer, enabling no-code AI-powered self-service experiences

Amazon Quick adds new tool settings and Model Context Protocol (MCP) sync support for connectors

Amazon Quick enhances connector management, allowing administrators to enable or disable individual tools selectively

Amazon Connect Customer expands automated performance evaluations to Malay

Amazon Connect Customer now automates evaluations of human and AI agents in Malay using generative AI, allowing managers to define custom criteria in natural language and receive AI-generated evaluations with justifications.

• Amazon Connect

Web Search on Amazon Bedrock is now available in AWS GovCloud (US-West)

Amazon Bedrock's Web Search is now available in AWS GovCloud (US-West), providing compliance-aware web results for government and public sector workloads

• Amazon Bedrock

AWS Marketplace reduces listing fee for professional services in multi-product solutions to 0%

AWS Marketplace now offers a 0% listing fee for professional services included in qualifying multi-product solutions, further lowering costs for partners selling through the platform

• AWS Marketplace

Amazon MemoryDB now supports AWS PrivateLink in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions

Amazon MemoryDB now supports AWS PrivateLink in AWS GovCloud (US) regions, enabling private access from within a VPC.

• Amazon MemoryDB for Redis

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Identity now offers a managed consent portal

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Identity provides a managed consent portal, eliminating the need for developers to build custom OAuth callback infrastructure

• Amazon Bedrock

Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio CI/CD adds notebook promotion and AI-assisted manifest generation

Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio CI/CD now includes AI-assisted manifest generation and native notebook promotion across environments, accelerating project-to-production workflows

• Amazon SageMaker

AWS Marketplace now supports auto-renewals for private offers

AWS Marketplace now supports auto-renewals for private offers, allowing sellers and buyers to maintain active subscriptions without renegotiation or repurchase at term end.

• AWS Marketplace

Amazon RDS for SQL Server supports 18 additional SQL trace flags

Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports 18 new SQL trace flags that can be enabled via database parameter groups, allowing administrators to adjust query optimizer behavior, lock escalation, statistics management, and memory handling.

• Amazon RDS

AWS Lambda now supports SnapStart for container image functions

AWS Lambda adds SnapStart for container image functions, reducing startup times from seconds to sub-seconds and enabling more responsive applications.

AWS UXC now available in all commercial AWS Regions

AWS UXC allows account administrators to customize the console experience, now manageable from any commercial AWS Region using AWS CLI, SDKs, or CloudFormation.

Amazon MWAA supports Apache Airflow version 3.3.1

Amazon MWAA now supports Apache Airflow version 3.3.1, introducing stateful tasks, multi-language support, and other enhancements.

• Amazon MWAA

Amazon Kinesis Data Streams now supports a dry run feature to validate API requests

Amazon Kinesis Data Streams adds a dry run feature for API requests, allowing customers to safely validate permissions before interacting with a stream in production.

• Amazon Kinesis

AWS Deadline Cloud now supports sharing job bundles

AWS Deadline Cloud adds job bundle sharing, enabling teams to distribute and reuse render job templates without manual file distribution

• AWS Deadline Cloud

Amazon Quick now generally available for building custom apps with natural language

Amazon Quick allows users to build custom applications by simply describing them in natural language, replacing spreadsheets and disconnected tools

Amazon Connect Customer dashboards now support compact mode

Amazon Connect Customer introduces compact mode on analytics dashboards, maximizing screen space to display more operational data without scrolling

• Amazon Connect

AWS Backup now supports protecting more than 1,000 Amazon S3 buckets per account

AWS Backup now allows backup and restore of all general purpose S3 buckets in an account, matching the S3 bucket quota, with no changes needed for existing default policies

Amazon CloudWatch Database Insights now supports self-managed PostgreSQL

Amazon CloudWatch Database Insights now enables monitoring of self-managed PostgreSQL instances on Amazon EC2, using the same console and workflows as AWS-managed databases.

• Amazon CloudWatch

Claude Fable 5.1 now available on AWS GovCloud (US)

Amazon Bedrock now offers Anthropic's new Fable 5.1 model in AWS GovCloud (US), designed for long-running, high-stakes tasks and managing entire software projects

• Amazon Bedrock

Amazon MSK Connect now supports restarting connectors

Amazon MSK Connect now supports restarting newly created connectors and their tasks, enabling fast recovery for streaming data pipelines

• Amazon MSK

Amazon DocumentDB now supports direct major version upgrades to version 8.0

Amazon DocumentDB supports direct major version upgrades from engine versions 3.6 and 4.0 to 8.0, allowing upgrades while preserving data and settings

• Amazon DocumentDB

Amazon CloudWatch now supports warm-up periods for alarms

Amazon CloudWatch now allows configuration of warm-up periods for metric and log alarms, reducing unnecessary notifications during resource startup

• Amazon CloudWatch

Amazon WorkSpaces Applications now available in three new AWS Regions

Amazon WorkSpaces Applications expands to Europe (Zurich), Asia Pacific (Osaka), and Canada West (Calgary) Regions, enabling users to deploy applications closer to their location for improved responsiveness.

Amazon OpenSearch Service adds new Cluster Insights for faster diagnosis of cluster status

Amazon OpenSearch Service introduces 17 new cluster insights that automatically identify root causes of red and yellow cluster statuses and provide actionable recommendations

• Amazon OpenSearch Service

Amazon Connect Global Resiliency now supports cross-region routing of contacts

Amazon Connect Global Resiliency enables contact routing across two linked AWS regions, allowing managers to view both regions as a unified contact center.

• Amazon Connect

AWS Elemental MediaTailor adds in-console analytics dashboard for ad monetization and streaming performance

AWS Elemental MediaTailor now offers an integrated analytics dashboard in the AWS Management Console, enabling publishers to monitor ad monetization and streaming performance across regions and detailed playback configurations

Amazon RDS Custom now supports latest CU and GDR updates for Microsoft SQL Server

Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server now includes the newest cumulative updates and general distribution releases for Microsoft SQL Server, addressing security vulnerabilities

• Amazon RDS

Claude Fable 5.1, Anthropic's new frontier model is now available on AWS

Anthropic's most capable frontier model now delivers improved intelligence for coding, research, and enterprise workflows

• Amazon Bedrock

AWS Interconnect - multicloud connectivity with Microsoft Azure in preview

AWS Interconnect now supports Microsoft Azure, simplifying multicloud connectivity management.

• AWS Direct Connect

AWS Agent Registry for centralized agent discovery and governance is now generally available

AWS Agent Registry now generally available, offering centralized management and discovery of agents and tools across organizations with support for CloudFormation, Terraform, and cross-account sharing

• Amazon Bedrock

Amazon Aurora serverless now available with 30% better performance and smarter scaling in additional AWS Regions

Amazon Aurora serverless delivers up to 30% better performance and enhanced scaling, now available in new regions including Asia Pacific (New Zealand), Asia Pacific (Thailand), Africa (Cape Town), Europe (Milan), and Mexico (Central).

• Amazon Aurora

AWS Lambda recursive loop detection now available in all commercial AWS Regions

AWS Lambda recursive loop detection is now available in all commercial regions by default, automatically detecting and stopping recursive invocations between Lambda functions and supported services

• AWS Lambda

Amazon Cognito now supports machine-to-machine authorization without a user pool domain

Amazon Cognito adds the GetClientToken API, allowing machine-to-machine authorization without a user pool domain. This API integrates with AWS SDKs and supports AWS WAF and VPC endpoints.

• Amazon Cognito

Amazon EC2 R9g and R9gd memory optimized instances are now available

Amazon EC2 launches R9g and R9gd instances powered by AWS Graviton5 processors

• Amazon EC2

Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB is now available in 8 additional AWS Regions

Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB enables developers and DevOps teams to run fully managed InfluxDB databases on AWS for real-time time-series applications, offering multi-AZ high availability and read replicas

• Amazon Timestream

Amazon Redshift now supports AWS IAM Identity Center authentication with enhanced VPC routing

Amazon Redshift supports IAM Identity Center authentication and enhanced VPC routing, enabling single sign-on with corporate credentials and VPC-based traffic paths for all operations

• Amazon Redshift

AWS Elastic Beanstalk now supports Active Directory domain join for Windows Server environments

AWS Elastic Beanstalk now automatically joins Windows Server instances in your environment to an Active Directory domain managed with AWS Directory Service, eliminating the need for custom join scripts.

• AWS Elastic Beanstalk

Automated Security Response on AWS adds AI Toolkit for custom remediations

Automated Security Response on AWS introduces an AI toolkit that accelerates custom remediation development and automates responses to findings from Amazon Inspector, GuardDuty, and Macie, with enhanced console management and multi-channel notifications.

AWS Workload Credentials Provider now offers one-click install for Linux and Windows

AWS Secrets Manager introduces one-click installation for the AWS Workload Credentials Provider on Linux and Windows, simplifying setup from a multi-step build process to a single command

• AWS Secrets Manager

Amazon Kinesis Data Streams announces streaming tables, delivering data to Apache Iceberg tables on Amazon S3 Tables

Amazon Kinesis Data Streams adds streaming tables, enabling continuous data delivery from Kinesis streams to Amazon S3 Tables in Apache Iceberg format. This eliminates the need for self-managed Iceberg pipelines, reducing delivery costs by up to 50% and query costs by up to 30% through intelligent inline compaction.

Amazon Kinesis Data Streams announces data delivery to general purpose Amazon S3 buckets

Amazon Kinesis Data Streams now delivers streaming data directly to S3, eliminating the need for complex pipelines or custom applications

Amazon EMR on EKS now supports job run concurrency controls

Amazon EMR on EKS adds concurrency and queue limits for job runs on virtual clusters

• Amazon EMR

AWS Transform now in scope for FedRAMP Class C

AWS Transform is now in scope for FedRAMP Class C in the US East (N. Virginia) Region, enabling migration and modernization of resources to meet compliance requirements

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Memory now supports fine-grained access control

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Memory adds fine-grained access control, enabling per-user and per-tenant memory isolation via AgentCore Gateway

Amazon EC2 C8gn instances now available in AWS Europe (Paris) region

Amazon EC2 launches C8gn instances with the latest Graviton4 processors in the Europe (Paris) region, offering up to 30% better compute performance and high-bandwidth networking

• Amazon EC2

Amazon Aurora MySQL 3.13 (compatible with MySQL 8.0.45) is generally available

Amazon Aurora MySQL now supports MySQL 8.0.45, including community fixes and Aurora-specific improvements

• Amazon Aurora

Amazon EC2 P6-B300 instances now available in additional AWS Regions

Amazon EC2 introduces P6-B300 instances in new regions, offering high-performance computing ideal for training and deploying large AI models with enhanced networking and memory

• Amazon EC2

AWS Backup adds cross-Region and cross-account backup support for Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP

AWS Backup now enables copying Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP backups across AWS Regions and accounts, enhancing disaster recovery and security

• AWS Backup
• Amazon FSx

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore expands to two new regions

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore now supports two additional AWS regions, enabling users to deploy agents closer to their end users with reduced latency.

• Amazon Bedrock

Amazon EC2 X8i instances now available in additional regions

Amazon EC2 X8i instances launch in Europe (Milan and Spain) regions, offering high performance for memory-intensive workloads.

• Amazon EC2

Amazon Redshift integrates with Agent Toolkit for AWS for AI-assisted data warehouse management

Amazon Redshift now integrates with the AWS Agent Toolkit, enabling AI agents like Claude Code and Kiro to build, query, troubleshoot, and migrate Redshift data warehouses and data lakes directly. It uses the AWS MCP server and includes curated Redshift skills for improved task completion.

• Amazon Redshift

Amazon Redshift now supports streaming 10MiB records from Amazon Kinesis Data Streams

Amazon Redshift extends support for Amazon Kinesis Data Streams record sizes up to 10MiB, enabling larger payloads and simplifying ingestion pipelines

• Amazon Redshift

Muse-Glimmer-30B and Qwen 3.8-27B models now available on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart

Amazon SageMaker JumpStart adds Meta's Muse-Glimmer-30B and Alibaba's Qwen 3.8-27B foundation models, enhancing autonomous agent workflows and multimodal reasoning capabilities

Cosmos3-Edge, Cosmos3-Nano, and Cosmos3-Super models now available on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart

Amazon SageMaker JumpStart now offers NVIDIA's Cosmos3 family, enabling physical AI applications for robots and autonomous systems

SpaceXAI Grok 4.6 now available on Amazon Bedrock in AWS GovCloud (US)

Amazon Bedrock in AWS GovCloud (US) now supports SpaceXAI's Grok 4.6, designed for coding and agentic tasks with a 500k context window

• Amazon Bedrock

Amazon EVS now supports i7i.metal-48xl Amazon EC2 instance type

Amazon EVS adds support for the i7i.metal-48xl EC2 instance type, offering higher core count and newer processors for VMware-based workloads

Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP now supports copying backups across AWS Regions and accounts

Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP enables backup copying to different Regions or accounts, enhancing data protection and business continuity

• Amazon FSx

Amazon Connect Customer now automatically refreshes scheduling metrics

Amazon Connect Customer now updates scheduling metrics in real time, helping managers respond faster to schedule changes

• Amazon Connect

Amazon Connect Customer expands conversational analytics capabilities in the Africa (Cape Town) Region

Amazon Connect Customer now offers generative AI-powered summaries, real-time call analytics, and real-time rules in the Africa (Cape Town) Region, helping companies improve customer experience and agent performance

• Amazon Connect

AWS DRS introduces Recovery Plans for automated application recovery

AWS DRS now offers Recovery Plans to automate the sequential startup of multi-server applications during recovery and drills, improving efficiency and reducing errors.

• AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery

AWS Glue 5.1 is now available in AWS European Sovereign Cloud Region

AWS Glue upgrades to Apache Spark 3.5.6, Python 3.11, and Scala 2.12.18, enhancing performance and security

• AWS Glue

Amazon Aurora DSQL now supports foreign key constraints

Amazon Aurora DSQL now allows adding foreign key constraints to new and existing tables, letting users define how referenced rows are handled when deleted or updated.

Amazon Cognito adds admin API operation to reset user TOTP configurations

Amazon Cognito now offers an admin API to reset user TOTP MFA settings, simplifying recovery for users who lose access to their TOTP device

• Amazon Cognito

Amazon Connect Customer now supports points-based scoring in performance evaluations

Amazon Connect Customer enables point-based scoring for evaluating agent performance, offering managers greater flexibility in configuring evaluation criteria

• Amazon Connect

Mountpoint for Amazon S3 adds memory usage controls

Mountpoint for Amazon S3 now allows users to limit memory usage automatically or with a user-defined cap, enabling coexistence with memory-intensive applications

• Amazon S3

Amazon Connect Customer now supports unplanned shrinkage in agent schedules

Amazon Connect Customer allows managers to input unplanned shrinkage directly into agent schedules, improving staffing accuracy due to unscheduled absences

• Amazon Connect

AWS Backup adds cross-Region backup copy and logically air-gapped vault support for Amazon DocumentDB in nine additional AWS Regions

AWS Backup now enables cross-Region copying of Amazon DocumentDB backups and supports logically air-gapped vaults in nine new Regions, helping meet disaster recovery and compliance needs.

• Amazon DocumentDB
• AWS Backup

Capacity Reservation Resource Groups now support Amazon EC2 Capacity Blocks and interruptible Capacity Reservations

Amazon EC2 Capacity Reservation Resource Groups now allow adding Capacity Blocks for ML and interruptible Capacity Reservations

• Amazon EC2

Amazon EC2 R8id instances now available in additional AWS Regions

Amazon EC2 introduces R8id instances in new regions, offering high-performance local storage and networking for memory-intensive workloads

• Amazon EC2

AWS Lambda MicroVMs now supports AWS PrivateLink

AWS Lambda MicroVMs now supports AWS PrivateLink, enabling private connectivity directly from VPC resources without exposing traffic to the public internet. This helps regulated workloads meet strict network isolation requirements.

• AWS Lambda

AWS Batch now supports Amazon ECS Managed Instances

AWS Batch adds Amazon ECS Managed Instances as a new compute option, enabling GPU-accelerated and compute-intensive batch workloads on AWS-managed infrastructure

Amazon EC2 C8id and M8id instances now available in additional AWS Regions

Amazon EC2 has launched C8id and M8id instances in new regions, offering up to 22.8 TB of local NVMe-based SSD storage and significant performance improvements over previous generations

• Amazon EC2

Amazon Connect Customer now allows updating or adding customer profiles to cases

Amazon Connect Customer enables agents to modify or add customer profiles to cases after they are opened, ensuring accurate case histories even when customers are unidentified at creation.

• Amazon Connect

Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL now supports minor versions 18.6, 17.11, 16.15, 15.19, and 14.24

Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL adds support for the latest minor versions, allowing users to apply security fixes and performance improvements from the PostgreSQL community.

• Amazon RDS

AWS IoT Core now supports native InfluxDB routing for time-series data

AWS IoT Core provides a new InfluxDB rule action that routes time-series data from IoT devices directly to InfluxDB databases without custom device-side code or intermediate cloud services

• AWS IoT Core
• Amazon Timestream

IAM Roles Anywhere now offers a Java plugin for the AWS SDK

IAM Roles Anywhere provides a plugin for the AWS SDK for Java v2, allowing workloads running outside AWS to obtain temporary AWS credentials directly within the Java application process, eliminating the need for a separate credential helper process.

• AWS IAM

Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports July 2026 Release Update

Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports the July 2026 Release Update for Oracle Database versions 19c, 21c, and 26ai, including security updates

• Amazon RDS

Amazon Aurora now supports PostgreSQL 18.4, 17.10, 16.14, 15.18, and 14.23

Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL adds support for new versions with bug fixes and performance improvements

• Amazon Aurora
• Amazon RDS

AWS Glue now supports catalog federation for remote Apache Iceberg catalogs in AWS GovCloud (US) regions

AWS Glue provides catalog federation for remote Iceberg REST catalogs, enabling direct and secure access to tables without data movement

• AWS Glue
• AWS Lake Formation

Amazon GameLift Servers now offers Enhanced DDoS Protection

Amazon GameLift Servers introduces Enhanced DDoS Protection, safeguarding game servers against common network and transport layer DDoS attacks

• Amazon GameLift

Amazon EC2 M8i and M8i-flex instances now available in Canada West (Calgary) region

Amazon EC2 launches new M8i and M8i-flex instances powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors, offering improved performance and memory bandwidth over previous generations.

• Amazon EC2

AWS Lambda introduces managed runtimes in public preview for Node.js 26 and Python 3.15

AWS Lambda now offers Node.js 26 and Python 3.15 managed runtimes in public preview, allowing users to test and provide feedback before general availability

• AWS Lambda

MSK Replicator now supports OAuth 2.0 (SASL/OAUTHBEARER) authentication

Amazon MSK Replicator adds OAuth 2.0 authentication for replicating data from external Kafka clusters, preserving topic names and synchronizing consumer group offsets bidirectionally.

• Amazon MSK

Amazon ECS now automatically detects and repairs container instances with impaired agent connectivity

Amazon ECS automates detection and recovery of agent connectivity issues, improving application availability

• Amazon ECS

AWS Lambda now supports full IAM resource-based policies

AWS Lambda supports full IAM resource-based policies, allowing multiple principals and actions in a single policy document

• AWS Lambda

AWS Secrets Manager adds managed external secrets support for Cisco Security Platform and Netskope

AWS Secrets Manager extends managed external secrets to include Cisco Security Platform API keys and Netskope API tokens, enabling automatic rotation of these third-party credentials directly from the AWS console without custom code

• AWS Secrets Manager

Amazon RDS now supports the latest CU for Microsoft SQL Server

Amazon RDS adds support for the latest Microsoft SQL Server cumulative updates, enabling instance upgrades

• Amazon RDS

Amazon SageMaker HyperPod enhances support for Ray

Amazon SageMaker HyperPod now enhances Ray support with built-in observability, resilient training, accelerated inference, and managed development environments

Amazon EKS now supports multiple external OIDC identity providers per cluster

Amazon EKS allows up to 10 external OIDC providers per cluster, offering more flexibility in authenticating users and workloads

• Amazon EKS

SageMaker MLflow now supports customer managed keys

SageMaker MLflow enables data encryption with customer-managed keys via AWS KMS

OpenAI GPT-5.6 Terra and Luna now available on Amazon Bedrock

Amazon Bedrock now offers OpenAI's GPT-5.6 models, enabling advanced tasks such as autonomous coding, genomics analysis, and cybersecurity research with high performance and efficiency.

• Amazon Bedrock

Amazon RDS for MySQL now supports MySQL minor version 8.4.11

Amazon RDS for MySQL adds support for MySQL minor version 8.4.11, introducing post-quantum TLS and security enhancements

• Amazon RDS

AWS ParallelCluster 3.16 adds an on-node diagnostics tool

AWS ParallelCluster now includes a diagnostics tool for cluster nodes, improves stability, and updates the HPC software stack

Amazon Connect Customer now supports information extraction for agent voice and chat conversations

Amazon Connect Customer automatically extracts key data such as account numbers and reservation IDs from voice and chat interactions, improving agent productivity and reducing manual data entry

• Amazon Connect

Amazon Bedrock announces reduced pricing for OpenAI GPT-5.6 Sol

Amazon Bedrock lowers prices for OpenAI GPT-5.6 Sol by 20% for input and 33.3% for output, effective until at least November 21, 2026

• Amazon Bedrock

AWS Glue 6.0 now generally available with 30% price reduction and Iceberg v3 support

AWS Glue 6.0 adds support for Apache Iceberg v3 and new capabilities to boost developer productivity while reducing costs by 30%

• AWS Glue

AWS Deadline Cloud now tracks automatic download status in the Deadline Cloud Monitor

AWS Deadline Cloud enables users to view progress and status of automatic file downloads from cloud jobs in the Monitor application

• AWS Deadline Cloud

AWS Neuron 2.32 introduces expanded NKI programming, MXFP8 training kernels, and variable-size collectives for Trn2 and Trn

AWS Neuron releases version 2.32.0 with NKI 0.6.0, adding new capabilities for Trn2 and Trn instances

Amazon EKS Capability for Argo CD now supports custom configuration

Amazon EKS Argo CD capability now allows custom configuration, enabling custom health checks and UI customization.

• Amazon EKS

Amazon Connect Customer enables managers to chat with their data

Amazon Connect Customer now allows managers to query their data in plain language and receive instant answers, evidence, and solutions. It analyzes over 150 metrics to identify performance drivers and recommend actions.

Amazon Redshift introduces long-term system table retention with Amazon S3 Tables integration

Amazon Redshift now automatically stores system table data in Amazon S3 Tables, enabling retention beyond the 7-day limit and cross-warehouse analysis

• Amazon Redshift

AWS Partner Central agents MCP Server now supports OAuth with AWS Sign-In

AWS partners can now access Partner Central agents from existing tools using OAuth via AWS Sign-In, simplifying authorization without additional software.

• AWS Marketplace
• AWS IAM

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Memory now supports extracting memories from non-conversational JSON payloads

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Memory now processes JSON payloads directly via the CreateEvent API, enabling long-term memory extraction from structured data

Amazon Redshift now supports concurrency scaling for streaming ingestion workloads from Amazon Kinesis data streams

Amazon Redshift introduces concurrency scaling for refreshes of streaming materialized views connected to Amazon Kinesis Data Streams, allowing main clusters or workgroups to be freed for higher-priority tasks

• Amazon Redshift

AWS Direct Connect introduces inbound prefix controls and higher prefix scale

AWS Direct Connect now allows allocation of up to 1,000 IPv4 and IPv6 prefixes per VIF with new inbound prefix controls, addressing previous limitations

• AWS Direct Connect

AWS announces general availability of a new AWS Local Zone in Las Vegas, Nevada

AWS has launched a new Local Zone in Las Vegas, supporting EC2 instances, EKS, and other services

• AWS Local Zones

Amazon EC2 P6-B300 instances now available in the Asia Pacific (Seoul) Region

Amazon EC2 introduces P6-B300 instances in the Asia Pacific (Seoul) Region, offering high-performance GPU resources ideal for training and deploying large AI models

• Amazon EC2

Amazon SES now allows per-request open and click tracking overrides

Amazon SES adds the ability to override open and click tracking settings directly in SendEmail and SendBulkEmail API calls, eliminating the need for separate configuration sets and simplifying recipient-level consent management.

Amazon CloudFront now supports Origin Access Control for Amazon S3 Multi-Region Access Points

Amazon CloudFront adds Origin Access Control for S3 Multi-Region Access Points, enabling secure access without custom SigV4a headers

• Amazon CloudFront

Amazon EC2 C8gd, M8gd, and R8gd instances now available in additional AWS Regions

Amazon EC2 adds C8gd, M8gd, and R8gd instances powered by Graviton4 processors to new regions, offering up to 30% better performance and faster I/O for analytics and database workloads.

• Amazon EC2

Amazon Aurora DSQL now supports Amazon CloudWatch Database Insights

Amazon Aurora DSQL adds CloudWatch Database Insights metrics for cluster-level performance monitoring, helping diagnose issues and identify resource-intensive queries.

Generative AI Inference Recommendations now available in SageMaker AI Studio

Amazon SageMaker introduces automated inference recommendations in AI Studio, drastically reducing configuration time for generative AI models

• Amazon SageMaker

ARC Region switch adds Amazon RDS Switchover Read Replica execution block

Amazon Application Recovery Controller's Region switch now automates recovery orchestration for Amazon RDS databases running Oracle Data Guard in multi-Region workloads

Amazon EKS now supports certificate authority (CA) rotation with automated lifecycle management

Amazon EKS automates certificate authority rotation, ensuring cluster security and continuity

• Amazon EKS

Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB now supports customer managed keys

Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB adds support for customer managed keys, enhancing data encryption flexibility

• Amazon Timestream

AWS IAM now supports 20 managed policies per role by default

AWS IAM increases the default quota for managed policies per role from 10 to 20, reducing the need for service quota requests

• AWS IAM

AWS Marketplace launches support for Amazon Lightsail

AWS Marketplace now allows customers to deploy eligible AMIs on Amazon Lightsail, offering simple pricing and streamlined instance creation.

• Amazon Lightsail

Amazon DynamoDB Streams now supports attribute-based access control

Amazon DynamoDB Streams supports attribute-based access control (ABAC) using tag-based conditions in IAM policies for fine-grained access management across teams and applications

• Amazon DynamoDB

Amazon Quick adds deny by default for custom permissions

Amazon Quick introduces a deny-by-default setting for custom permissions, allowing administrators to restrict AI capability categories in profiles applied to users, roles, or entire accounts

AWS adds a new Availability Zone to the Europe (London) Region

AWS has added a fourth Availability Zone to the Europe (London) Region, enhancing capacity for AI/ML workloads and improving fault isolation for highly available architectures

AWS Elemental MediaConnect Router now supports configurable recovery latency modes

AWS Elemental MediaConnect Router now allows customers to configure latency settings, offering control over internal connection latency between inputs and outputs. Two modes-balanced and low-latency-are available to optimize recovery time for different workflows.

CloudWatch pipelines adds GeoIP, RDS, and XML processors

Amazon CloudWatch pipelines now includes three new processors for parsing and enriching log data: an RDS log parser, an XML parser, and a GeoIP enrichment processor.

• Amazon CloudWatch

Amazon EC2 enables AMI creation with local snapshots from instances on Outposts

Amazon EC2 now supports creating AMIs with local snapshots from instances running on AWS Outposts, allowing snapshots to be stored either on the Outpost or in the parent AWS Region while meeting data residency requirements.

• Amazon EC2

Enabling External Web Access for Web Search on Amazon Bedrock

Amazon Bedrock's Web Search now allows retrieval of content directly from the public web, with an option to keep processing within AWS boundaries

AWS Marketplace now supports category-based notifications and multi-channel delivery for partners

AWS Marketplace partners can now select notification categories and route them to responsible teams via multiple channels including email, console app, and chat apps

• AWS Marketplace

AWS Lambda MicroVMs now available in 5 additional AWS regions

AWS Lambda MicroVMs offers VM-level isolation and near-instant startup for secure, stateful code execution. It enables dedicated environments for users or jobs without managing virtualization infrastructure.

• AWS Lambda

Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion now available in GovCloud Regions

Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion offers a fully managed data ingestion tier that allows filtering, transforming, redacting, and routing data before indexing in OpenSearch Service clusters or serverless collections

• Amazon OpenSearch Service

AWS Cost Anomaly Detection now supports third-party models on Amazon Bedrock

AWS Cost Anomaly Detection adds automatic monitoring for third-party foundation models running on Amazon Bedrock, such as Anthropic Claude, with no setup required

Amazon SageMaker notebooks now support trusted identity propagation

Amazon SageMaker notebooks now support TIP, enabling per-user access control for data analytics

• Amazon SageMaker

Web Search in Amazon Bedrock AgentCore adds domain and published date filtering, expands to Europe and Asia Pacific

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore now supports domain and published date filtering for web search, expanding to Europe and Asia Pacific regions, allowing per-request control over trusted sources and time windows.

• Amazon Bedrock

Amazon WorkSpaces Applications adds in-console monitoring capabilities

Amazon WorkSpaces Applications now enables administrators to access real-time session and resource metrics directly within the service console

AWS Security Agent adds budget controls and finding revalidation

AWS Security Agent now includes task-hour limits for penetration tests and revalidation of fixed vulnerabilities, improving cost management and security verification efficiency

Amazon CloudWatch log centralization now supports log group tag propagation

Amazon CloudWatch log centralization now copies tags from source log groups to destination groups, allowing teams to use them for access control and cost reporting.

• Amazon CloudWatch

AgentCore payments now generally available in Amazon Bedrock AgentCore

AgentCore payments enables AI agents to autonomously discover, access, and pay for paid APIs, MCPs, and content with minimal code, providing security and observability for enterprises

• Amazon Bedrock

Amazon EC2 High Memory U7i instances now available in AWS Europe (Zurich) region

Amazon EC2 introduces High Memory U7i instances in the Europe (Zurich) region, offering large memory capacity and high-throughput processing for demanding workloads

• Amazon EC2

PostgreSQL 19 Beta 3 now available in Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment

Amazon RDS offers PostgreSQL 19 Beta 3 in the preview environment, enhancing query performance and autovacuum management

• Amazon RDS

Amazon EC2 R8i instances now available in Israel (Tel Aviv) region

Amazon EC2 introduces R8i instances in the Tel Aviv region, enhancing performance for memory-intensive workloads.

• Amazon EC2

Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio now supports data profiling and anomaly detection

Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio adds data profiling and anomaly detection using AWS Glue Data Quality, enabling users to generate statistical profiles and detect data drift without predefined thresholds.

• Amazon SageMaker

Amazon EC2 R8a instances now available in Asia Pacific (Taipei) region

Amazon EC2 introduces R8a instances in the Asia Pacific (Taipei) region, offering up to 30% higher performance and 19% better price-performance over R7a instances

• Amazon EC2

AWS IAM identity federation to external services now available in AWS European Sovereign Cloud Region

AWS IAM now allows AWS workloads in the European Sovereign Cloud (Germany) Region to authenticate securely with external services using short-lived JWTs, eliminating the need for long-term credentials or complex workarounds.

• AWS IAM

AWS Storage Gateway now supports FIPS-compliant private connectivity for Tape and Volume Gateway

AWS Storage Gateway adds FIPS 140-3 validated endpoints via AWS PrivateLink for Tape and Volume Gateway, enabling private network use for regulated workloads.

• AWS Storage Gateway
• AWS PrivateLink

IAM Policy Autopilot now supports Terraform plan files

IAM Policy Autopilot can now generate baseline IAM policies directly from Terraform plan files, producing policies scoped to resource CRUD functions with specific ARNs when possible

• AWS IAM

Amazon Bedrock now supports OpenAI models in India

Amazon Bedrock adds support for OpenAI's GPT-5.6 models (Terra and Luna) in India, ensuring processing stays within the country

Amazon Bedrock now supports SpaceXAI Grok 4.6 with Cross Region Inferencing

Amazon Bedrock adds support for SpaceXAI Grok 4.6, enabling cross-region inference to boost throughput and reduce costs

Amazon Corretto August 2026 Critical Security Patch Updates

Amazon Corretto announced critical security patch updates for Long-Term Support and Feature Release versions of OpenJDK

Amazon MWAA Serverless now supports PythonOperator and BashOperator

Amazon MWAA Serverless allows users to run custom Python functions and shell scripts directly in the serverless runtime using PythonOperator and BashOperator.

• Amazon MWAA

Amazon MSK now supports custom domain names for MSK Provisioned clusters

Amazon MSK Provisioned clusters now allow easy configuration of custom domain names for both ZooKeeper and KRaft modes.

• Amazon MSK

Amazon ECR now supports 25 replication rules per registry

Amazon ECR has increased the maximum number of replication rules per registry from 10 to 25, allowing more flexible replication strategies for multi-region and multi-account architectures.

• Amazon ECR

Amazon EC2 R8i and R8i-Flex instances now available in Canada West (Calgary) region

Amazon EC2 launches R8i and R8i-Flex instances in Canada West (Calgary), offering enhanced performance and cost efficiency for memory-intensive workloads

• Amazon EC2

Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling now supports batch instance termination

Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling adds support for terminating up to 100 instances in a single API call, reducing the number of API calls needed to scale down Auto Scaling groups. This is particularly useful for workloads requiring rapid scale-down such as AI/ML training jobs and container orchestrators

Amazon S3 Metadata and annotations now available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions

Amazon S3 offers metadata and annotations in GovCloud (US) regions, simplifying data analysis and AI context management

• Amazon S3

Amazon WorkSpaces Now Supports Nested Virtualization

Amazon WorkSpaces enables nested virtualization, allowing direct execution of various development tools on user desktops

• Amazon WorkSpaces

Amazon Bedrock expands API support and introduces Cross Region Inferencing for OpenAI models

Amazon Bedrock now supports OpenAI's GPT 5.6 models and cross-region inferencing to improve throughput and reduce costs

Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports automatic semantic enrichment for VPC domains

Amazon OpenSearch Service extends automatic semantic enrichment to VPC-enabled domains, allowing customers with private network configurations to leverage AI-powered semantic search without exposing domains to the public internet

• Amazon OpenSearch Service

Amazon Quick Microsoft 365 extensions now generally available

Amazon Quick announces general availability of Microsoft 365 extensions for Excel, PowerPoint, Word, and Outlook, enabling AI-driven tasks directly within users' M365 environments

AWS Network Firewall Now Supports Stateful Rule Hit Counts

AWS Network Firewall introduces hit counts for stateful rules, enabling network administrators to monitor rule activity and improve policy visibility

AWS Console-to-Code adds 26 services and cross-region recording

AWS Console-to-Code now supports 26 additional services and introduces cross-region and cross-browser-tab action recording, enabling developers and DevOps engineers to automate complex multi-region deployments more effectively.

• Amazon EC2

Amazon Connect Customer dashboards now support reporting on routing steps and agent proficiencies

Amazon Connect Customer dashboards now support reporting on routing steps and agent proficiencies, enabling supervisors to monitor and optimize how contacts are matched to agents based on agent proficiencies

• Amazon Connect

AWS CloudShell now includes a built-in visual file editor

AWS CloudShell adds a built-in visual file editor accessible via a single 'edit' command within browser sessions

• AWS CloudShell

Amazon Location Service now supports POI category and density filtering in map styles

Amazon Location Service adds POI category and density filtering to map styles, allowing developers to control which place categories and how many POIs appear on maps server-side

Amazon Quick now supports data loss prevention with Microsoft Purview

Amazon Quick integrates with Microsoft Purview, allowing IT administrators to apply sensitivity labels to control file handling across Quick capabilities

Amazon Quick now supports approval policies for sharing

Amazon Quick provides approval policies that let administrators control asset sharing within their organization, requiring designated approvers to review share requests before granting access.

Amazon Quick now supports per-user resource limits

Amazon Quick allows administrators to set per-user limits on index storage and agent hours, preventing unexpected overage charges

Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports Oracle APEX version 26.1

Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports Oracle APEX version 26.1, allowing developers to use the latest low-code development platform with modern user interfaces.

• Amazon RDS

Amazon Quick now allows customizable no data messages for visuals

Amazon Quick introduces customizable no data messages for visuals, allowing authors to set a custom title, subtitle, and hyperlink that dynamically reflect current filter selections.

• Amazon Quick

AWS Certificate Manager supports switching from email to DNS validation

AWS Certificate Manager now allows changing the domain validation method on existing public TLS certificates from email to DNS without reissuing the certificate or changing its ARN, enabling automated renewals ahead of the 2028 deadline.

AWS Billing and Cost Management introduces Managed Dashboards

AWS Billing and Cost Management now includes preconfigured, read-only Managed Dashboards for instant cost insights without setup

Daybreak Red and Daybreak Blue from OpenAI now available to eligible customers on Amazon Bedrock

Amazon Bedrock now offers OpenAI's Daybreak models for security teams

• Amazon Bedrock

Amazon Redshift adds rg.large and rg.12xlarge instance sizes in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions

Amazon Redshift now offers new RG instance sizes in AWS GovCloud (US), improving performance and reducing costs. Existing clusters can be resized or upgraded to these instances.

• Amazon Redshift

Amazon SES click tracking now supports custom URL paths for mobile app deep linking

Amazon SES introduces a new ses:custom-path HTML attribute to enable mobile deep linking while maintaining engagement tracking

Claude Opus 5 now available in AWS GovCloud (US)

Amazon Bedrock now offers Claude Opus 5 in AWS GovCloud (US) regions, delivering advanced coding, long-running agents, and complex document analysis capabilities with zero data retention enabled by default

• Amazon Bedrock

AWS Client VPN adds CLI support, administration controls, and faster connections

AWS Client VPN now includes CLI support, administration controls, and faster connection establishment, enabling centralized device management and easier automation

Spot Placement Score now includes Local Zones

AWS announces support for AWS Local Zones in Spot placement score, helping users identify locations where their Spot capacity request is most likely to succeed. Now, users can optionally include local zones in zonal and regional score responses for a broader view of Spot capacity options.

• Amazon EC2

Amazon Quick Microsoft 365 extensions are now generally available

Amazon Quick launches general availability of Microsoft 365 extensions for Excel, PowerPoint, Word, and Outlook, enabling AI-driven task handling within M365 environments

Amazon S3 adds detailed policy information to access denied error messages

Amazon S3 now shows specific IAM and organization policy ARNs in access denied errors, helping users quickly identify and resolve policy issues

• Amazon S3

AWS Deadline Cloud Now Supports EBS Persistent Volume Cost Tracking

AWS Deadline Cloud now displays costs for Amazon EBS persistent volumes in the Usage Explorer, helping users track and manage storage expenses across fleets.

• AWS Deadline Cloud

Amazon EKS now supports advanced Kubernetes control plane configuration parameters

Amazon EKS enables configuration of Kubernetes control plane components, allowing cluster administrators to fine-tune pod placement, autoscaling responsiveness, and resource lifecycle settings for improved resource utilization

• Amazon EKS

AWS Global View adds interactive map view for AWS Regions and Local Zones

AWS Global View now includes an interactive map to visualize AWS Regions and Local Zones

• AWS Local Zones

AWS Clean Rooms supports minimum aggregation thresholds in custom analysis rules

AWS Clean Rooms adds minimum aggregation thresholds to custom analysis rules, helping protect individual privacy by ensuring query results meet specific count requirements.

• AWS Clean Rooms

AWS IAM now provides role manager to set up IAM roles automatically

AWS IAM introduces role manager, automatically setting up required IAM roles when configuring supported services in the console, reusing existing roles when possible and allowing full management via IAM console.

• AWS IAM

Amazon Quick now supports data loss prevention with Microsoft Purview

Amazon Quick integrates with Microsoft Purview to enforce data loss prevention policies across the Quick environment, allowing IT administrators to apply Purview sensitivity labels to automatically control file handling in Quick capabilities

Amazon Quick adds deny by default for custom permissions

Amazon Quick introduces a deny-by-default setting for custom permissions, allowing administrators to restrict AI capability categories in permission profiles and apply them to users, roles, or entire accounts

Amazon Quick now supports per-user resource limits

Amazon Quick enables administrators to set per-user limits on index storage and agent hours, preventing unexpected overage charges

Amazon Quick now supports approval policies for sharing

Amazon Quick provides approval policies enabling administrators to govern asset sharing, requiring designated approvers to review and approve share requests before granting access.

Amazon Connect Customer supports manual assignment of queued agent-first callbacks

Amazon Connect Customer now allows agents to view and self-assign queued agent-first callbacks alongside emails, tasks, and chats, enabling agents to prioritize work that needs immediate follow-up or for which they already have relevant context.

• Amazon Connect

LocateAnything-3B, Qwen-AgentWorld-35B-A3B, and Qwen3.5-122B-A10B models now available on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart

Amazon SageMaker JumpStart adds new models for visual grounding, agent environment simulation, and large-scale multimodal reasoning

Amazon EC2 R8a instances now available in Canada (Central) region

Amazon EC2 R8a instances feature 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors, delivering up to 30% higher performance and 19% better price-performance over R7a instances

• Amazon EC2

Amazon Quick agentic AI capabilities now available in AWS GovCloud (US-West)

Amazon Quick offers agentic AI capabilities in AWS GovCloud (US-West) to help government and regulated industry teams make mission-critical decisions faster

Amazon Nova Multimodal Embeddings now available in AWS GovCloud (US-West)

Amazon Nova Multimodal Embeddings, a unified model supporting text, documents, images, video, and audio, enables high-accuracy cross-modal search in AWS GovCloud (US-West)

• Amazon Bedrock

NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning model now available on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart

Amazon SageMaker JumpStart now offers NVIDIA's Nemotron 3.5 Lightning model, accelerating persistent agent workloads and rapid task execution.

Amazon Bedrock expands IAM principal cost allocation to the bedrock-mantle endpoint

Amazon Bedrock now allows IAM users and roles as cost allocation tags, enabling analysis of model inference costs through the bedrock-mantle endpoint by team or project

• Amazon Bedrock

Amazon Connect Customer launches performance dashboard for Cases

Amazon Connect Customer now offers a performance dashboard for cases, enabling managers to monitor case volume, resolution trends, and SLA achievement. It allows comparison of current and past performance across key metrics and analysis by case template, user, or queue.

• Amazon Connect

AWS Clean Rooms supports exporting privacy-enhanced analysis logs for SQL

AWS Clean Rooms now supports exporting privacy-enhanced analysis logs for SQL queries, enabling users to optimize and troubleshoot their queries by viewing Spark execution details

• AWS Clean Rooms

AWS Glue adds one-click access to SageMaker Unified Studio from the AWS console

AWS Glue now offers direct access to SageMaker Unified Studio, enabling data engineers and analysts to efficiently move from the Glue console to data querying, quality checks, and pipeline building with a single click

• Amazon SageMaker

Amazon MSK now supports in-place migration from Apache ZooKeeper to KRaft

Amazon MSK enables customers to migrate existing clusters to KRaft without provisioning new infrastructure, migrating data, or reconfiguring client applications. KRaft shifts metadata management from external ZooKeeper nodes to controllers within Kafka, improving performance and scalability.

• Amazon MSK

AWS Marketplace now supports category-based notification subscriptions and multi-channel delivery for buyers

AWS Marketplace buyers can now configure category-based notifications and multi-channel delivery through AWS User Notifications, allowing teams to receive only relevant notifications.

AWS IAM streamlines IAM role assignment to workforce users with account access manager

AWS IAM introduces account access manager, simplifying IAM role assignment. It provides a single federation point and user awareness through IAM Identity Center.

GLM-5.2 FP8, NVIDIA-Nemotron-Nano-12B-v2 and GLM-OCR models now available on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart

Amazon SageMaker JumpStart adds new foundation models to support long-horizon tasks and document understanding among other use cases

Amazon EC2 High Memory U7i instances now available in AWS South America (São Paulo) region

Amazon EC2's 7th generation High Memory U7i instances are now available in the São Paulo region, offering 24 TiB of DDR5 memory ideal for mission-critical in-memory databases like SAP HANA and Oracle.

• Amazon EC2

langcache-embed-v3-small, Mellum2-12B-A2.5B-Thinking, and LightOnOCR-2-1B models now available on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart

Amazon SageMaker JumpStart now offers three new foundation models from Redis, JetBrains, and LightOn, enabling specialized capabilities in semantic caching optimization, code-focused reasoning, and end-to-end document OCR for high-performance AI solutions on AWS.

FLUX.2-small-decoder and gemma-4-12B-it models now available on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart

Amazon SageMaker JumpStart now offers Black Forest Labs' FLUX.2-small-decoder and Google's gemma-4-12B-it models, enhancing image generation speed and multimodal understanding capabilities

AWS Secrets Manager adds managed external secrets support for Jenkins and SonarQube

AWS Secrets Manager now supports managed external secrets for Jenkins API Tokens and SonarQube Tokens, enabling automatic rotation of these third-party credentials directly from the AWS console

• AWS Secrets Manager

Amazon OpenSearch Serverless now supports up to 10,000 collections per collection group

Amazon OpenSearch Serverless's next generation now supports up to 10,000 collections per collection group, increasing from the previous limit of 1,500 and enabling greater scalability and cost savings for large multi-tenant workloads

• Amazon OpenSearch Service

Amazon EC2 introduces application status checks

Amazon EC2 now offers application status checks, enabling monitoring of application health on EC2 instances. This helps detect issues like stopped web servers or incorrect network configurations.

• Amazon EC2

Amazon GameLift Streams Now Offers Service-managed Shader Caching

Amazon GameLift Streams now automates shader cache capture and distribution, reducing loading times and visual stuttering without requiring application changes.

• Amazon GameLift

AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery now preserves UEFI boot mode for Linux servers

AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery now preserves UEFI boot mode when recovering Linux servers that boot with UEFI firmware. This ensures recovered instances match the source environment, allowing UEFI-dependent applications to function as expected without additional post-recovery steps.

• AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery

Amazon VPC IPAM now supports BGP route protection monitoring and delegated RPKI for BYOIP prefixes

Amazon VPC IPAM adds BGP route protection monitoring and delegated RPKI for BYOIP prefixes, enabling network administrators to centrally manage and automate route security across their organization

• Amazon VPC

Amazon EC2 R8i and R8i-Flex instances now available in Europe (Milan) region

Amazon EC2 launches R8i and R8i-Flex instances in the Europe (Milan) region, offering high performance and cost efficiency for memory-optimized workloads

• Amazon EC2

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore adds memory, policy, and harness in AWS GovCloud (US-West)

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore now offers memory for conversation context, centralized policy controls using Cedar language, and a managed harness allowing developers to build agents with minimal code in AWS GovCloud (US-West).

• Amazon Bedrock

AWS IAM Identity Center adds one-click multi-Region support for new organization instances

AWS IAM Identity Center now allows customers to enable multi-Region support with one click when creating a new organization instance, automatically creating a multi-Region KMS key and replicating the instance to an additional Region.

Amazon Cognito now available as a skill in the Agent Toolkit for AWS

Amazon Cognito is now available as a core skill (aws-auth) in the Agent Toolkit for AWS, enabling developers to configure, secure, and troubleshoot Amazon Cognito using best-practice workflows for user sign-in flows, AI agents, and microservices

• Amazon Cognito

Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB now supports backup and restore

Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB enables users to create and manage their own backups and restore data on demand, allowing greater control over data protection strategies.

• Amazon Timestream

Amazon Connect Customer now provides schedule adherence metrics on dashboards

Amazon Connect Customer provides supervisors with historical agent adherence metrics on dashboards to improve visibility into how well agents follow their schedules.

• Amazon Connect

Amazon CloudWatch Alarms now supports wall clock evaluation windows

Amazon CloudWatch Alarms now offers wall clock evaluation windows, allowing customers to align alarm evaluations to fixed calendar boundaries such as the top of the hour, midnight, or the start of the week. This helps prevent false alarms in scheduled workloads.

• Amazon CloudWatch

Amazon Connect Customer adds one-click drill-down on real-time metrics dashboards

Amazon Connect Customer dashboards now allow supervisors to drill down into real-time queue and routing profile performance with a single click, enabling quick reassignment of agents to reduce backlogs.

• Amazon Connect

Amazon OpenSearch UI Now Supports Network Access Control

Amazon OpenSearch Service adds network access controls for OpenSearch UI applications, allowing restriction of access to approved networks using IAM condition keys.

• Amazon OpenSearch Service

AWS WAF now supports a Salt Security managed rule group for API and MCP threat detection

AWS WAF supports Salt Security's managed rule group, providing detection and mitigation for API and MCP threats without custom rules

• AWS WAF

AWS Parallel Computing Service is now in scope for FedRAMP, SOC, ISO, CSA STAR, and PCI

AWS Parallel Computing Service has expanded its security and compliance coverage for regulated industries and government agencies.

Amazon OpenSearch Service announces additional upgrade runway for existing domains and support dates for additional versions

Amazon OpenSearch Service is extending security and OS patch coverage for legacy Elasticsearch and OpenSearch engine versions through November 7, 2027, with updated support rates. It also announces standard and extended support dates for Elasticsearch versions 6.8, 7.9, 7.10, OpenSearch version 1.3, and OpenSearch versions 2.11 to 2.19.

• Amazon OpenSearch Service

Amazon GameLift Servers now supports 21 new EC2 instance types

Amazon GameLift Servers adds compute-optimized and general-purpose EC2 instance types, enabling game server performance and cost optimization

• Amazon GameLift

Amazon ElastiCache now supports Graviton4-based M8g, R8g, and C8gn nodes

Amazon ElastiCache now supports Graviton4-based M8g, R8g, and C8gn node families for Valkey and Memcached, offering up to 47% higher throughput and 43% lower P99 latency.

• Amazon ElastiCache

AgentCore runtime instances are now generally available

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore now offers runtime instances, enabling users to run agents on their own Amazon EC2 instances without managing infrastructure, providing scalable and secure deployment for AI agents

• Amazon Bedrock

Amazon EC2 G7 instances now available in the AWS Europe (Spain) Region

Amazon EC2 G7 instances powered by NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs deliver up to 4.6x AI inference and 2.1x graphics performance compared to G6 instances

• Amazon EC2

AWS Lambda console extends console-to-IDE integration to Kiro and Cursor

AWS Lambda console now extends its console-to-IDE integration to Kiro and Cursor IDEs, allowing developers to start local development from the console with guided setup.

Amazon ECS now supports fractional GPU scheduling with Amazon EC2 G6f instances

Amazon ECS enables GPU partitioning as small as one-eighth of an NVIDIA L4 GPU on G6f instances, ideal for small AI inference and model experimentation

• Amazon ECS

Amazon WorkSpaces now publishes enhanced observability metrics

Amazon WorkSpaces adds performance and session health metrics to CloudWatch, enabling IT administrators to identify and troubleshoot issues affecting end-user experience

• Amazon WorkSpaces

Amazon WorkSpaces Applications now publishes enhanced observability metrics

Amazon WorkSpaces Applications now provides additional performance and session health metrics to CloudWatch, enabling proactive identification of issues affecting end-user experience

Amazon RDS now provides visibility into storage volume initialization status

Amazon RDS now enables monitoring of storage volume initialization status from snapshots, allowing users to track when storage is fully initialized and ready for latency-sensitive workloads.

• Amazon RDS

AWS Security Agent now supports email-based MFA for penetration testing

AWS Security Agent enables penetration testing of applications using email-based multi-factor authentication, allowing automated testing by forwarding MFA emails directly to the agent.

AWS Transform automates post-launch actions for migrations

AWS Transform now automates the configuration and execution of post-launch actions through the migration workflow, allowing account-level action definitions and automatic application across target accounts and source servers.

AWS Glue Schema Registry is now available in ten more AWS regions

AWS Glue Schema Registry simplifies streaming data schema management, improving data quality and reducing downstream application failures

• AWS Glue
• Amazon MSK

Amazon MSK now delivers Kafka Authorizer Logs to customers

Amazon MSK now supports Authorizer Log Delivery for Provisioned clusters, including Standard and Express brokers, at no additional cost, enabling detailed visibility into user and application access.

• Amazon MSK

Amazon SES now helps identify automated open and click events in event notifications

Amazon SES adds an isBotEvent field to open and click event notifications to help distinguish between human and automated interactions.

AWS Backup for Amazon S3 now supports direct access to backup data

AWS Backup for Amazon S3 now enables read-only access to backup data via standard S3 APIs without initiating a restore, allowing targeted file recovery, data validation, compliance auditing, and forensic investigation.

• Amazon S3
• AWS Backup

AWS Marketplace now allows sellers to configure net payment terms on private offers

AWS Marketplace now supports configurable net payment terms on private offers, allowing sellers to set Net 30 to Net 90 terms, giving buyers clarity on payment due dates.

• AWS Marketplace

AWS IAM Identity Center makes management of AWS account access optional for new organization instances

AWS IAM Identity Center now allows you to choose whether to enable AWS account access management when creating a new organization instance, reducing the access surface in your environment when account management is not needed.

AWS Glue Data Catalog now supports metadata exports to S3 Tables (Preview)

AWS Glue Data Catalog introduces preview support for exporting catalog metadata to S3 Tables, enabling querying of technical and business metadata using standard SQL.

• AWS Glue

AWS Glue Data Quality makes ETL anomaly detection free and improves anomaly predictions

AWS Glue Data Quality introduces a new observation mode that reduces false anomaly detection and removes pricing for anomaly detection in ETL jobs, enabling more accurate monitoring of data quality across all Glue pipelines at no additional cost

• AWS Glue

Amazon EC2 M8g instances now available in additional regions

Amazon EC2 M8g instances, powered by AWS Graviton4 processors, deliver up to 30% better performance than Graviton3-based instances and are designed for general-purpose workloads such as application servers, microservices, and gaming servers.

Announcing temporal policies and rate limiting in Amazon Bedrock AgentCore

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore adds new controls for stateful authorization and traffic management. Temporal policies enforce workflow sequencing and data freshness, while rate limiting allows per-user or per-group traffic controls to tools, models, and agents.

• Amazon Bedrock

Amazon Quick supports multi-dataset analytical capability

Amazon Quick now supports multi-dataset topics, allowing users to define relationships across datasets in a single topic and perform joins at runtime for both dashboard creation and natural language queries without pre-joining data

AWS Backup extends logically air-gapped vault support for Amazon Neptune to three additional AWS Regions

AWS Backup now supports logically air-gapped vaults for Amazon Neptune in Asia Pacific (Melbourne), Europe (Spain), and Europe (Zurich). This enables backup copying, sharing, and access protection across accounts and regions.

• AWS Backup
• Amazon Neptune

Amazon Aurora serverless now scales faster to support agentic AI and other bursty workloads

Amazon Aurora serverless now reaches up to 12 ACUs within a second during scale-up events and scales down to zero after workload completion, ideal for agentic AI applications with bursty activity patterns

• Amazon Aurora

Amazon DynamoDB now supports real-time vector search

Amazon DynamoDB now offers native vector search with single-digit millisecond latency and high recall, supporting real-time indexing and search of vector data at any scale, including trillions of vectors.

AWS Marketplace adds AI Insights for buyers to understand pricing before purchase

AWS Marketplace now offers AI Insights, helping buyers understand product pricing before purchase by explaining cost structures in plain language, including how usage scales and multiple pricing dimensions combine.

• AWS Marketplace

Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) is now available in the Canada West (Calgary) Region (ca-west-1)

Amazon Keyspaces is now available in the Canada West (Calgary) Region, enabling low-latency Cassandra-compatible application development while meeting data residency requirements

• Amazon Keyspaces

AWS Lambda announces scalable network bandwidth up to 3,000 Mbps for functions outside a VPC

AWS Lambda now supports scalable network bandwidth for functions outside a VPC, allowing bandwidth to scale from 625 Mbps at 2 GB memory up to 3,000 Mbps at 10 GB memory, reducing execution time and cost for latency-sensitive workloads.

• AWS Lambda

Amazon Connect Customer now supports capacity planning in 15 or 30 minute intervals

Amazon Connect Customer enables more granular staffing requirements across Voice, Chat, Task, and Email channels.

• Amazon Connect

Amazon S3 Vectors is now available in the AWS European Sovereign Cloud (Germany) Region

Amazon S3 Vectors provides purpose-built vector storage for AI agents and RAG, delivering S3's elasticity and durability

• Amazon S3

Re-introducing Forward Proxy as AWS Network Firewall Functionality

AWS Network Firewall now includes explicit forward proxy functionality, maintaining all existing filtering capabilities and using a single security policy for both explicit proxy and transparent firewall.

• Amazon VPC
• AWS Network Firewall

Amazon EC2 I8g instances now available in AWS Europe (Paris), Asia Pacific (Jakarta) regions

Amazon EC2 I8g instances, powered by AWS Graviton4 processors, are optimized for storage-intensive workloads and feature third-generation AWS Nitro SSDs for improved real-time storage performance and lower latency.

AWS Application and Network Load Balancers now support RFC 9151 compliant security policies

AWS Application Load Balancer and Network Load Balancer now support new TLS-based security policies compliant with RFC 9151 for CNSA 1.0 requirements, enabling compatibility with both CNSA and non-CNSA clients during transition.

• Elastic Load Balancing

Amazon EC2 C8g instances now available in additional regions

Amazon EC2 C8g instances are now available in the Europe (Paris), Africa (Cape Town), Israel (Tel Aviv), and Canada West (Calgary) regions. Powered by AWS Graviton4 processors, these instances deliver up to 30% better performance compared to Graviton3-based instances.

AWS Security Hub Extended adds supply chain security as its 10th category

AWS Security Hub Extended now includes supply chain security as its 10th category with Chainguard and Socket as curated partners, enabling detection and blocking of malicious dependencies before they are built into applications.

• AWS Security Hub

Amazon EMR on EC2 now supports Spark Connect for interactive workloads

Amazon EMR on EC2 supports Spark Connect, enabling interactive Apache Spark sessions from SageMaker Unified Studio and IDEs for development and debugging.

• Amazon EMR

Amazon Bedrock launches Web Search for OpenAI GPT models

Amazon Bedrock now offers Web Search, enabling OpenAI models to ground responses with current web knowledge entirely within AWS, eliminating third-party provider onboarding and additional security reviews.

• Amazon Bedrock

Amazon Connect Customer now allows exporting cases to CSV from the agent workspace

Amazon Connect Customer enables agents to export cases to CSV directly from the agent workspace, simplifying data sharing with internal teams and external stakeholders. Admins can control access via security profile permissions.

• Amazon Connect

Amazon SageMaker Studio notebooks now support G7 instance types

Amazon SageMaker Studio notebooks now support G7 instances powered by NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs, delivering up to 4.6x AI inference performance over previous-generation G6 instances for tasks like conversational AI and video streaming.

• Amazon SageMaker

AWS Lambda Provisioned Mode for Amazon SQS event source mappings now supports up to 10,000 event pollers

AWS Lambda increases the maximum number of event pollers for Provisioned Mode for Amazon SQS event source mappings from 2,000 to 10,000, enabling up to 100,000 concurrent invocations

AWS Organizations now provides maximum account quota visibility in Service Quotas

AWS Organizations allows customers to view their account quota limits and utilization directly through Service Quotas, enabling proactive account growth planning.

OpenAI GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna now support 1 million token context windows on Amazon Bedrock

Amazon Bedrock's OpenAI GPT-5.6 models now support 1 million token context windows, enabling processing of entire codebases and long documents in a single request

• Amazon Bedrock

AWS Transform continuous modernization is now generally available

AWS Transform now generally available across all supported regions, enabling teams to analyze and remediate technical debt across repositories, with support for GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket, and automated pull requests for validated changes.

RDS SQL Server now supports publishing SQL Server Audit logs to CloudWatch

Amazon RDS for SQL Server now allows publishing SQL Server Audit logs directly to CloudWatch, enabling real-time analysis of audit data alongside optional S3 storage.

• Amazon RDS

Amazon RDS for SQL Server Now Supports Developer Edition in Additional AWS Regions

Amazon RDS for SQL Server's Developer Edition is now available in 13 additional AWS regions, enabling development and testing closer to data and end users

• Amazon RDS

Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports BYOM in additional commercial regions

Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports BYOM in 10 additional AWS regions, allowing reuse of existing Microsoft SQL Server licenses.

• Amazon RDS

AWS Config now supports 15 new resource types

AWS Config adds support for 15 new resource types across Amazon Bedrock, Amazon OpenSearch Serverless, and Amazon SageMaker, expanding coverage of AWS resources for discovery, assessment, auditing, and remediation

• AWS Config

Amazon ECR now supports image layers up to 200 GB

Amazon ECR increases the maximum image layer size to 200 GB for images pushed via Docker push, eliminating the need to split data across multiple layers or use external storage for large language models, genomics datasets, or large binary dependencies

• Amazon ECR

AWS WAF now supports Miggo Security managed rule groups for emerging threats and AI/ML application protection

AWS WAF adds two new managed rule groups from Miggo Security, offering continuous protection against actively exploited vulnerabilities and AI/ML application threats via AWS Marketplace

• AWS WAF

AWS Transform for full-stack Windows modernization now supports offline schema transformation to Aurora PostgreSQL

AWS Transform now generally available for offline source transformation, enabling customers to modernize Microsoft SQL Server databases to Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL without live database connections. This allows direct upload of DDL files, assessment of complexity, and generation of customizable transformation plans.

• Amazon Aurora

Amazon SageMaker AI serverless model customization now supports full fine-tuning

Amazon SageMaker AI serverless model customization now supports full fine-tuning for over 25 open-source models, enabling deeper adaptation to domain-specific patterns and knowledge.

• Amazon SageMaker

Amazon EC2 I7i instances now available in Asia Pacific (Thailand) and Israel (Tel Aviv) Regions

Amazon EC2 I7i instances feature 5th Gen Intel Xeon Processors, offering up to 23% better compute performance and over 10% better price performance versus previous generation I4i instances, ideal for I/O-intensive and latency-sensitive workloads

• Amazon EC2

AWS Resilience Hub now provides recommended resilience tests

AWS Resilience Hub offers pre-configured tests based on service architecture and recovery objectives, helping teams validate readiness for scenarios like Availability Zone and Regional impairments

• AWS Resilience Hub

AWS HealthOmics now supports task-level timeout for WDL workflows

AWS HealthOmics enables setting maximum execution duration for individual WDL tasks, allowing cost control and automated error recovery

Amazon GameLift Streams now supports sharing streams with stream URLs

Amazon GameLift Streams provides stream URLs for temporary, unauthenticated access to playable stream sessions in supported web browsers, requiring no AWS account, credentials, or software installation.

Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio now supports Teradata Vantage

Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio adds Teradata Vantage as a data source, enabling integration of enterprise data warehouse data with other assets for unified analysis

• Amazon SageMaker

Amazon RDS for Oracle now offers Reserved Instances for R8i and M8i instances

Amazon RDS for Oracle now provides 1-year and 3-year Reserved Instances for R8i and M8i instances, offering up to 53% cost savings compared to On-Demand prices. These instances feature custom Intel Xeon 6 processors exclusive to AWS, delivering superior performance and memory bandwidth.

• Amazon RDS

Amazon Aurora DSQL adds multi-Region cluster support in four more Regions

Amazon Aurora DSQL now supports multi-Region clusters in four additional AWS Regions, offering active-active high availability and multi-Region strong consistency. This expansion enables multi-Region clusters in Europe and Asia-Pacific regions.

AWS Introduces Context Ontology Accelerator

AWS launches an open-source Context Ontology Accelerator to help organizations build machine-readable business models, enabling AI agents to make consistent, explainable decisions through a knowledge graph and Model Context Protocol.

• Amazon Neptune
• Amazon Bedrock

Amazon Location Service adds Search Nearby support for GrabMaps in Southeast Asia

Amazon Location Service now supports proximity-based point of interest discovery with GrabMaps data in the Asia Pacific (Singapore) and Asia Pacific (Malaysia) Regions, allowing developers to surface nearby places ranked by distance with category filtering.

Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio brings richer Git version control to all project tools

Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio now provides full Git version control directly within tools like Query Editor, Visual ETL, Workflows, and Notebooks, enabling file-level management and flexible repository integration

• Amazon SageMaker

Amazon EC2 C7i instances now available in additional regions

Amazon EC2 C7i instances, powered by custom 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors, deliver up to 15% better price-performance versus C6i instances and are ideal for compute-intensive workloads

• Amazon EC2

Amazon EC2 C7i-flex instances now available in Europe (Milan) region

Amazon EC2 C7i-flex instances deliver up to 19% better price-performance compared to C6i, ideal for compute-intensive workloads with sizes from large to 16xlarge.

• Amazon EC2

AWS CodeDeploy now available in five additional AWS regions

AWS CodeDeploy is now available in five new regions, allowing developers and DevOps engineers to deploy applications with lower latency.

• Amazon EC2
• AWS CodeDeploy
• Amazon ECS

Amazon CloudWatch announces managed Prometheus collectors

Amazon CloudWatch now supports collecting Prometheus metrics from AWS infrastructure using fully managed collectors, enabling monitoring of Amazon EKS, EC2, ECS, MSK, and OpenSearch Service workloads without deploying or managing agents.

AWS Lambda now supports Java 8, 11, and 17 on Amazon Linux 2023

AWS Lambda now offers Java 8, 11, and 17 runtimes on Amazon Linux 2023, enabling migration from AL2 without upgrading Java versions.

• AWS Lambda

AWS announces general availability of Policy-Based Routing on AWS Transit Gateway

AWS Transit Gateway now offers Policy-Based Routing, enabling granular traffic control based on packet attributes without complex multi-VPC architectures

• Amazon VPC
• AWS Transit Gateway

Amazon Bedrock announces up to 80% lower prices for OpenAI GPT-5.6 models

Amazon Bedrock reduces prices for OpenAI GPT-5.6 Luna and Terra models by up to 80%, enabling customers to apply their capabilities across more applications and process larger workloads

• Amazon Bedrock

IAM Policy Simulator moves to the IAM console and adds additional capabilities

The IAM Policy Simulator is now integrated into the IAM console, adding support for testing SCPs, condition key effects, and policy exclusions

• AWS IAM

Amazon Redshift RG large and 12xlarge instances now available on the trailing track

Amazon Redshift now supports Graviton-based RG instances on the trailing track, offering up to 2.4x faster query performance at 30% lower cost per vCPU

• Amazon Redshift

AWS Direct Connect now supports BGP route visibility on Virtual Interfaces

AWS Direct Connect provides BGP route visibility, enabling users to view routes exchanged between AWS and on-premises routers across private, transit, and public VIFs via console or API

• AWS Direct Connect

Amazon MSK Express brokers now deliver Apache Kafka data to Amazon S3

Amazon MSK Express brokers now deliver Apache Kafka data to Amazon S3 automatically, providing high-throughput and reliable data delivery while reducing operational overhead and costs by up to 60%.

• Amazon MSK

AWS Glue announces VPC support, filter pushdown, and partition support for the REST API connector

AWS Glue adds VPC connectivity, filter pushdown, and partition support to the REST API connector, enabling secure access to private endpoints, reduced data transfer costs, and faster ingestion through parallel reads

• AWS Glue

Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports OpenSearch version 3.7

Amazon OpenSearch Service now offers OpenSearch 3.7, introducing improvements to vector search performance, search relevance, and query insights.

• Amazon OpenSearch Service

AWS Managed Microsoft AD Now Supports Standard to Enterprise Edition Upgrade

AWS Directory Service now enables direct upgrades from Standard to Enterprise Edition for AWS Managed Microsoft AD without migrating directories or re-joining workloads.

• AWS Directory Service

Gemma 4 models now available on Amazon Bedrock in AWS GovCloud (US-West)

Amazon Bedrock introduces Google DeepMind's Gemma 4 models for generative AI applications in reasoning, multimodal understanding, and software engineering workflows

• Amazon Bedrock

xAI's Grok 4.3 model now available on Amazon Bedrock in AWS GovCloud (US-West)

Amazon Bedrock adds xAI's Grok 4.3 model to AWS GovCloud (US-West), offering enhanced reasoning and agent-building capabilities ideal for enterprise workloads.

• Amazon Bedrock

Amazon MSK Express brokers now deliver data to streaming tables for Apache Iceberg

Amazon MSK Express provides continuous delivery of Apache Kafka topics to Apache Iceberg tables on Amazon S3 Tables, reducing data ingestion and downstream query costs by up to 60% and 30% respectively compared to self-managed deployments.

• Amazon MSK

AWS announces AWS Interconnect - multicloud connectivity with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure in GA

AWS Interconnect now generally available, enabling connections to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

• AWS Direct Connect

AWS WAF adds pre-parse text transformations and new text transformations

AWS WAF adds pre-parse text transformations for query arguments and ten new text transformations to help normalize request content

• AWS WAF

Amazon Redshift Data API announces long polling, session management, and flexible batch execution

Amazon Redshift Data API adds long polling to reduce API calls for SQL metadata or results, session management for visibility into active sessions, and flexible batch execution allowing each statement in a batch to execute independently. These enhancements improve efficiency for ETL pipelines and administrative scripts.

• Amazon Redshift

Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling now supports Instance Refresh in CloudFormation

Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling supports Instance Refresh in CloudFormation, enabling features like root volume replacement and controlled rollouts

Amazon Connect Customer now automatically finds example agent evaluations for tailored coaching

Amazon Connect Customer now automatically surfaces relevant examples of agent evaluations when managers prepare coaching feedback, enabling actionable, evidence-backed coaching. This saves time previously spent manually searching for examples.

• Amazon Connect

IAM Identity Center extends multi-Region support to Identity Center directory

IAM Identity Center now supports multi-Region replication for instances using the Identity Center directory, enhancing resilience and deployment flexibility across AWS Regions.

Amazon EFS now supports cross-account Replication in AWS GovCloud (US)

Amazon EFS now provides cross-account replication in AWS GovCloud (US), enabling automatic synchronization of file systems across multiple accounts

Second-generation AWS Outposts racks now supported in the AWS Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Region

AWS Outposts extends AWS infrastructure to on-premises environments, now supported in the Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Region, helping customers optimize latency and data residency requirements.

• AWS Outposts

AWS Console Home now supports the Cost and Usage widget in the AWS European Sovereign Cloud (Germany) Region

AWS Console Home adds the Cost and Usage widget to the AWS European Sovereign Cloud (Germany) Region, enabling users to display insights from Cost Explorer and Cost Optimization Hub on their dashboard.

Amazon EKS Provisioned Control Plane delivers faster pod autoscaling

Amazon EKS Provisioned Control Plane increases HPA sync concurrency up to 40 times the default Kubernetes value, reducing scaling time for HPA-driven workloads under load.

• Amazon EKS

Amazon EKS now supports AWS PrivateLink for the cluster OIDC endpoint

Amazon EKS now supports AWS PrivateLink for the cluster OIDC endpoint, enabling private access from VPCs without internet egress for IAM roles for service accounts (IRSA)

• Amazon EKS

AWS Glue Data Quality now supports distribution statistics for data profiling

AWS Glue Data Quality adds a new Distribution Analyzer to generate frequency distribution profiles, integrating directly with DQDL rulesets for histograms and value distributions, stored in S3 for future querying.

• AWS Glue

AWS Glue Data Quality now supports anomaly detection and writing results to the AWS Glue Data Catalog

AWS Glue Data Quality now supports anomaly detection and result storage in the AWS Glue Data Catalog for catalog-based data quality evaluations, providing consistent data quality across ETL jobs and catalog evaluations

• AWS Glue

Amazon Neptune now supports tag-based access control for IAM

Amazon Neptune adds tag-based access control (TBAC) for IAM, allowing dynamic control of cluster access using resource and principal tags

• Amazon Neptune

Amazon S3 Tables now supports the Variant data type for Apache Iceberg V3

Amazon S3 Tables now supports the Variant data type defined in Apache Iceberg Version 3, enabling direct writing of semi-structured data like JSON without prior schema definition

• Amazon S3

AWS DataSync Enhanced mode adds HDFS, Azure Blob, and object storage locations with Hyper-V agent support

AWS DataSync Enhanced mode now supports agent-based data transfers with Hadoop Distributed File Systems (HDFS), Microsoft Azure Blob Storage, and self-managed object storage, and allows deployment of Enhanced mode agents on Microsoft Hyper-V.

• AWS DataSync

AWS DataSync Enhanced mode now supports Amazon EFS and Amazon FSx for Lustre

AWS DataSync now allows Enhanced mode to use Amazon EFS and Amazon FSx for Lustre as source or destination locations, simplifying workflows for large-scale migrations, AI/ML training, and high-performance computing.

• AWS DataSync
• Amazon FSx
• Amazon EFS

AWS Elemental MediaTailor adds configurable ad timeout and concurrency controls

AWS Elemental MediaTailor now allows direct control over ad decision server timeouts, enabling customization of HTTP ad request timeouts and parallel processing to optimize performance for live events and VOD workflows.

AWS Security Hub MCP App brings exposure findings into your AI-assisted workflow (Preview)

AWS Security Hub MCP App, a local MCP server, integrates Security Hub exposure findings into Claude Desktop to accelerate security investigations

• AWS Security Hub

Amazon GameLift Streams now supports Custom Aspect Ratio and Dynamic Resolution

Amazon GameLift Streams adds custom aspect ratio and dynamic resolution, enhancing streaming across diverse devices and network conditions

Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports restoring TDE databases on Multi-AZ instances

Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports restoring TDE-enabled SQL Server databases to Multi-AZ instances and instances with read replicas using native backup and restore, eliminating the need to disable TDE or switch to Single-AZ configurations.

• Amazon RDS

AWS HealthLake identifies and links duplicate patient, provider, and organization records (Preview)

AWS HealthLake now offers resource matching to automatically identify and link duplicate records, enabling accurate longitudinal patient records and trustworthy population health datasets without specialized master data management tools

• Amazon HealthLake

Amazon Redshift Serverless now offers All Upfront pricing for 3-year Serverless Reservations

Amazon Redshift Serverless introduces an all-upfront payment option for 3-year Serverless Reservations, offering up to 50% savings over on-demand rates

• Amazon Redshift

Amazon MWAA now supports Apache Airflow version 2.11.2

Amazon MWAA supports Apache Airflow 2.11.2, including security improvements, bug fixes, and dependency upgrades

• Amazon MWAA

Amazon Connect now supports audio optimization for Azure Virtual Desktop and Windows 365 Cloud PC

Amazon Connect enables audio optimization on Azure Virtual Desktop and Windows 365 Cloud PC. After a one-time setup, media redirects from the virtual desktop to the agent's local device, improving audio quality

• Amazon Connect

Claude Opus 5 now available on AWS

Offered via Amazon Bedrock and Claude Platform on AWS with zero data retention, enhancing code generation, long-running agents, and complex analysis accuracy

• Amazon Bedrock

Amazon SES simplifies sending emails over SMTP with Mail Manager

Amazon SES now offers a guided setup for sending emails over SMTP using Mail Manager, automating resource creation and configuration so developers can get started in just a few clicks.

AWS Lambda now publishes logs for Lambda Managed Instances capacity providers

AWS Lambda automatically generates logs for Lambda Managed Instances capacity providers, delivering them to CloudWatch Logs for monitoring scaling and instance lifecycle operations.

Amazon Kinesis Data Streams now supports scaling down ingest capacity with warm throughput

Amazon Kinesis Data Streams now allows scaling down ingest capacity for on-demand streams. This enables users to adjust write throughput up or down as needed.

• Amazon Kinesis

Amazon EC2 Dedicated Hosts now support host resource groups without self-managed licenses

Amazon EC2 Dedicated Hosts now allows creation of Host Resource Groups without requiring Self-Managed Licenses, offering greater flexibility for customers needing hardware-level isolation or using EC2 Mac instances.

• Amazon EC2

Claude Sonnet 5 now available on Amazon Bedrock in AWS GovCloud (US)

Amazon Bedrock offers Claude Sonnet 5 in AWS GovCloud (US), delivering strong performance across coding, agentic tasks, and knowledge work while keeping data within AWS infrastructure.

• Amazon Bedrock

AWS Clean Rooms supports larger worker types up to 32 vCPUs for SQL

AWS Clean Rooms now supports larger worker types with 32 vCPUs and 244 GB of memory for SQL analyses, improving performance and cost efficiency for complex queries on large datasets

Amazon EC2 I8ge instances are now generally available in additional AWS regions

Amazon EC2 I8ge instances, powered by AWS Graviton4 processors, deliver up to 60% better compute performance and significantly improved storage performance for storage-optimized workloads

• Amazon EC2

Amazon CloudWatch Logs now supports Application Load Balancer logs

Amazon CloudWatch Logs now supports Application Load Balancer logs as vended logs, improving observability and simplifying debugging for network traffic patterns.

• Elastic Load Balancing
• Amazon CloudWatch

AWS Lambda Durable Execution SDK for .NET is now generally available

AWS Lambda Durable Execution SDK for .NET is now generally available, enabling C# developers to build long-running workflows directly in Lambda

• AWS Lambda

Amazon ECS Service Connect now supports Zone-Aware routing

Amazon ECS Service Connect introduces zone-aware routing, prioritizing service-to-service traffic within the same Availability Zone to reduce cross-AZ data transfer costs and latency

• AWS Fargate
• Amazon ECS

AWS announces aws-bench, an open-source benchmark for AI agents on AWS

AWS has released a research preview of aws-bench, an open-source benchmark measuring how accurately and efficiently AI agents complete real-world AWS tasks. It provides a public test suite derived from real AWS usage for evaluating and improving model and agent performance on AWS operations.

Opus 4.8, Sonnet 5, and User Activity Monitoring now available on Kiro in AWS GovCloud (US)

Kiro now offers more powerful Opus 4.8 and cost-effective Sonnet 5 models along with organization-wide usage monitoring capabilities in AWS GovCloud (US)

SageMaker AI inference expands to G7e instances in new regions

Amazon SageMaker AI inference now offers G7e instances in Seoul, London, and Tokyo regions, supporting large LLM inference and high-memory workloads

• Amazon SageMaker

Amazon EVS is now available in additional Regions

Amazon EVS expands to Seoul, Zurich, and Stockholm Regions, offering lower latency and compliance benefits for VMware workloads on AWS.

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore now delivers unified observability with traces and logs in a single log group

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore delivers agent traces and prompts to the same log group as agent logs, providing unified observability for AI agents in a single Amazon CloudWatch log group.

• Amazon Bedrock

Amazon RDS for MySQL supports MySQL 9.7 in Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment

Amazon RDS for MySQL now supports community MySQL 9.7 in the preview environment, allowing users to evaluate the latest release and test new capabilities

• Amazon RDS

AWS now supports automatic credit memo application preferences

AWS enables customers paying via electronic funds transfer to configure preferences for how credit memos are automatically applied to outstanding invoices, offering options to apply to the original, next eligible, or oldest unpaid invoice.

AWS Parallel Computing Service now supports node lifecycle actions

AWS Parallel Computing Service introduces node lifecycle actions, enabling automatic execution of custom scripts at defined points in a compute node's lifecycle

Amazon SageMaker AI inference now supports G7 instances

Amazon SageMaker AI inference now supports G7 instances powered by NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs, delivering up to 4.6x AI inference performance over previous-generation G6 instances

• Amazon SageMaker

Amazon EC2 M8id instances now available in Europe (Ireland) region

Amazon EC2 M8id instances feature Intel Xeon 6 processors, delivering up to 43% higher performance and 3.3x more memory bandwidth than previous generation M6id instances.

• Amazon EC2

Amazon EC2 C7a instances now available in the US West (N. California) Region

Amazon EC2 C7a instances, powered by 4th Gen AMD EPYC processors, deliver up to 50% higher performance than C6a instances with DDR5 memory and support for up to 128 EBS volumes per instance.

• Amazon EC2

Amazon EC2 High Memory U7i instances now available in additional regions

Amazon EC2 High Memory U7i instances are now available in new regions, offering 16TiB and 24TiB of DDR5 memory and high-throughput processing capabilities

• Amazon EC2

AWS Wickr announces Data Retention Service feature

AWS Wickr now offers a managed Data Retention Service for Premium users, enabling organizations to retain conversations across their network for archiving. The serverless architecture simplifies deployment and maintains end-to-end encryption.

SageMaker AI Inference Now Available with G6 Instances in AWS GovCloud (US-East)

Amazon SageMaker introduces G6 instances in AWS GovCloud (US-East), enabling government agencies and organizations to run generative AI workloads while meeting strict compliance and data residency requirements

• Amazon SageMaker

AWS Organizations increases RCP quota to 2,000 per organization

AWS Organizations has doubled the resource control policy quota from 1,000 to 2,000 per organization, enabling more granular access controls in large multi-account environments

• AWS Organizations

Amazon Corretto Gets Security Updates and Docker Image Changes

Amazon Corretto announces security updates and Docker image changes. Default images now use Amazon Linux 2023, and JavaFX binaries are no longer included with Corretto 8

AWS Lambda durable functions now supports customer managed key encryption

AWS Lambda durable functions now allow encryption of execution data with customer managed keys via AWS KMS, enabling compliance in regulated industries.

• AWS Lambda

AWS Entity Resolution now supports advanced real-time matching

AWS Entity Resolution introduces real-time processing with advanced matching workflows, enabling complex rule sets to be executed in milliseconds via the GenerateMatchId API

• AWS Entity Resolution

AWS Network Load Balancer now supports Listener Rules for custom traffic routing

Network Load Balancer now supports listener rules to route connections to different target groups based on source IP address type, enabling IPv6 traffic to IPv6 targets and IPv4 traffic to IPv4 targets while preserving the original client IP end-to-end.

• Elastic Load Balancing

Amazon EC2 M8a instances now available in the Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) region

Amazon EC2 M8a instances feature 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors, delivering up to 30% higher performance and 19% better price-performance over M7a instances, ideal for latency-sensitive workloads.

• Amazon EC2

Amazon ECS advanced deployment strategies now available in AWS European Sovereign Cloud

Amazon ECS now supports built-in blue/green, linear, and canary deployment strategies in the AWS European Sovereign Cloud, enabling safer software updates and faster releases for containerized applications

• Amazon ECS
• AWS Fargate

Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio now supports Amazon OpenSearch

Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio now supports Amazon OpenSearch as a data source, allowing you to query and analyze search and log analytics data alongside other data assets.

• Amazon SageMaker

AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery is now available in six additional AWS Regions

AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery expands to six new regions, enabling recovery of applications from physical infrastructure, VMware, Microsoft Hyper-V, and cloud platforms

• AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery

AWS Direct Connect announces 100G expansion in Lima, Peru

AWS Direct Connect now offers 100 Gbps dedicated connections at the Cirion data center in Lima, Peru, with MACsec encryption capabilities.

• AWS Direct Connect

AWS Secrets Manager now publishes secret update notifications to Amazon EventBridge

AWS Secrets Manager automatically publishes events to Amazon EventBridge whenever secret values change, enabling real-time response workflows

• AWS Secrets Manager

Amazon EKS now supports EFA and placement groups on Amazon EKS Auto Mode and Karpenter

Amazon EKS enables control over EFA network interface configuration and physical distribution of EC2 instances for performance and availability optimization

Amazon ECS now provides Action Logs for deployment and orchestration visibility

Amazon ECS introduces Action Logs, delivering detailed records of service-side operations during deployments and managed daemon updates to improve monitoring and troubleshooting

• AWS Fargate
• Amazon ECS

Amazon SES introduces pricing plans

Amazon SES now offers three pricing plans-Essentials, Pro, and Enterprise-providing tiered capabilities at discounted rates compared to à-la-carte pricing.

Amazon EC2 M6in and M6idn instances now available in additional regions

Amazon EC2 introduces M6in and M6idn instances in the Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) and South America (Sao Paulo) regions, offering up to 200Gbps network bandwidth and high-performance storage for network-intensive workloads

Amazon EC2 C6in instances now available in Asia Pacific (Taipei) Region

Amazon EC2 launches sixth-generation C6in network-optimized instances in the Taipei region, offering up to 200Gbps network bandwidth and enhanced performance for various high-demand applications

Amazon EC2 R6in and R6idn instances now available in additional regions

Amazon EC2 now offers R6in and R6idn instances in the Europe (Paris) and Canada (Central) regions. These sixth-generation network-optimized instances deliver up to 200Gbps of network bandwidth and 2x more network bandwidth compared to comparable fifth-generation instances.

AWS HealthOmics now available in two additional AWS Regions

AWS HealthOmics offers fully managed bioinformatics workflows for research and drug discovery, now available in the Tokyo and Ohio Regions, enabling customers to build genomics data analysis pipelines using Nextflow, WDL, and CWL.

AWS Marketplace now supports self-service seller signature management for India-based sellers

AWS Marketplace enables India-based sellers to upload and manage their seller signatures directly through AWS Partner Central, streamlining tax invoicing and compliance with automated validation and real-time status visibility.

Amazon WorkSpaces Applications now supports Microsoft OneDrive and Google Drive on Multi-Session fleets

Amazon WorkSpaces Applications now supports Microsoft OneDrive for Business and Google Drive as persistent storage options on multi-session fleets, allowing users to connect, access, save, and sync cloud files directly within streaming sessions.

Amazon Connect Customer launches metrics for agent queues on analytics dashboards

Amazon Connect Customer now displays real-time and historical metrics for agent queues on analytics dashboards, enabling supervisors to track agent performance in their queues.

• Amazon Connect

AWS Partner Central agents expand funding guidance to all programs

AWS Partner Central agents now support all AWS Partner funding programs, eliminating manual data entry and reducing eligibility errors

Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports Microsoft SQL Server 2025

Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports Microsoft SQL Server 2025, enabling AI integration, a new free edition, and native vector data types

Amazon RDS now supports the latest CU and GDR updates for Microsoft SQL Server

Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports the latest Cumulative Updates and General Distribution Release updates for Microsoft SQL Server, addressing security vulnerabilities

• Amazon RDS

Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus supports 1.5B active metrics and 200K rules per workspace

Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus now supports up to 1.5 billion active metric time series and 200,000 rules per workspace, enabling storage and analysis of billions of Prometheus metrics across organizations.

Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink now supports Apache Flink 2.3

Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink now supports Apache Flink 2.3, introducing adaptive partition selection, improved handling of out-of-order updates in CDC pipelines, and new SQL functions for converting between changelog and standard streams

Amazon EC2 I8ge instances now available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions

Amazon EC2 I8ge instances leverage AWS Graviton4 processors, delivering up to 60% better compute performance and significantly improved storage performance for storage-optimized workloads

Amazon Connect delivers more natural agentic voice experiences with expanded language support and speech controls

Amazon Connect now supports over 50 languages and 100 new voice options, enhancing natural conversational experiences with improved flow and speech control features.

• Amazon Connect

Selectively log network activity events by identity in AWS CloudTrail

AWS CloudTrail now allows selective logging of network activity events for VPC endpoints based on the IAM user identity making the API call, enabling customers to capture unauthorized access attempts while excluding routine traffic from trusted identities.

• AWS CloudTrail

Amazon EC2 R8i and R8i-flex instances now available in additional regions

Amazon EC2 R8i and R8i-flex instances are now available in the Europe (Stockholm, Zurich) regions. Powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors, they offer up to 15% better price-performance and 2.5x more memory bandwidth compared to previous generation Intel-based instances.

• Amazon EC2

AWS Data Exports now provides standardized Amazon Bedrock product metadata

AWS Data Exports introduces consistent, structured attributes for Amazon Bedrock costs, eliminating the need for custom logic in CUR 2.0

• Amazon Bedrock

Introducing KNFSD File Cache - Now in Preview

AWS announces the preview of KNFSD File Cache, an open-source solution for deploying a scalable, high-speed NFS cache on AWS, designed for read-heavy burst compute workloads.

Amazon CloudWatch announces coding agent insights

Amazon CloudWatch introduces coding agent insights, providing visibility into how AI coding tools drive value across organizations. It integrates with Claude apps gateway to collect telemetry from Claude Code, Codex, and GitHub Copilot without additional instrumentation.

Announcing the general availability of a new AWS Local Zone in Athens, Greece

AWS launches a new Local Zone in Athens, Greece, supporting Amazon S3 and EBS Local Snapshots for in-country data processing and storage

• AWS Local Zones

Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio adds custom visual transforms

Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio now allows data engineers to create, share, and reuse custom visual transforms in visual ETL flows, enabling teams to apply business-specific logic without coding expertise.

• Amazon SageMaker

Amazon SageMaker HyperPod now supports partition-level topology for Slurm orchestrated clusters

Amazon SageMaker HyperPod now supports network topology configuration at the partition level for Slurm orchestrated clusters, improving distributed training performance by aligning job placement with instance interconnect characteristics

Amazon GameLift Streams now supports IAM role credentials for stream sessions

Amazon GameLift Streams now allows assigning an IAM role to a stream session, enabling applications to securely access AWS resources without code changes. By passing a RoleArn parameter when starting a session, applications automatically receive short-lived, auto-refreshing AWS credentials.

Amazon OpenSearch UI now supports one-click dashboard migration

Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports one-click migration from legacy OpenSearch Dashboards to OpenSearch UI, allowing users to move existing tenants and saved objects without manual recreation.

• Amazon OpenSearch Service

Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics now supports customer managed encryption keys

Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics now allows the use of customer-managed AWS KMS keys to encrypt canary environment variables, providing enhanced control over sensitive configuration data encryption.

• Amazon CloudWatch

PostgreSQL 19 Beta 2 now available in Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment

Amazon RDS now offers PostgreSQL 19 Beta 2 in the Database Preview Environment, introducing parallel autovacuum, online table rebuilding, and native SQL property graph queries

• Amazon RDS

Cost Efficiency widget now available in Billing and Cost Management Dashboards

AWS adds a Cost Efficiency widget to BCM Dashboards, showing efficiency scores over time, account/region breakdowns, and integrating with budgets and commitments for unified monitoring

Amazon S3 removes 30-day minimum for transitions to S3 Standard-IA and S3 One Zone-IA

Amazon S3 now allows transitioning objects to S3 Standard-IA and S3 One Zone-IA immediately after creation, eliminating the previous 30-day minimum retention in S3 Standard. This reduces storage costs by up to 40% while maintaining millisecond access for cold data scenarios.

• Amazon S3

Amazon Redshift adds rg.large and rg.12xlarge instance sizes

Amazon Redshift announces the general availability of two new RG instance sizes - rg.large and rg.12xlarge. These instances deliver the same Graviton-powered performance benefits as existing RG instances, offering up to 2.4x faster query performance than previous-generation RA3 instances at 30% lower price per vCPU.

• Amazon Redshift

Amazon EC2 High Memory U7in-24TB instances now available in AWS Europe (Paris) region

Amazon EC2 U7in-24TB instances offer 24 TiB of DDR5 memory and 896 vCPUs, ideal for mission-critical in-memory databases like SAP HANA and Oracle

• Amazon EC2

AWS Sustainability service now includes water withdrawals data

AWS Sustainability now provides annual water withdrawal data, enabling users to assess environmental impact alongside carbon emissions.

Amazon S3 Event Notifications now include system-generated tags

Amazon S3 Event Notifications now include system-generated tags for all destinations, simplifying event filtering across multiple buckets with a single EventBridge rule.

• Amazon S3

Amazon EC2 now surfaces the public SSM parameters associated with public AMIs

Amazon EC2 now includes public SSM parameters in AMI metadata, simplifying AMI updates by providing direct access to the latest version via an alias

• Amazon EC2

Amazon Managed Grafana achieves FedRAMP High authorization in AWS GovCloud (US)

Amazon Managed Grafana is now FedRAMP High authorized in AWS GovCloud (US-East) and AWS GovCloud (US-West) regions, enabling federal agencies and public sector organizations to visualize, query, and alert on operational metrics across AWS and hybrid environments while meeting strict security and compliance requirements.

Amazon Aurora DSQL is now in scope for FedRAMP Moderate

Amazon Aurora DSQL is now compliant with FedRAMP Moderate in selected US regions, enabling use for government workloads requiring this standard.

AWS Backup extends restore testing support to seven additional AWS Regions

AWS Backup now offers restore testing in seven new regions: Asia Pacific (Taipei), Asia Pacific (Malaysia), Asia Pacific (New Zealand), Asia Pacific (Thailand), Israel (Tel Aviv), Mexico (Central), and Canada West (Calgary). This enables automated restore tests and measurement of restore job completion times against recovery time objectives (RTO).

• AWS Backup

AWS Backup extends logically air-gapped vault support to six additional AWS Regions

AWS Backup now offers logically air-gapped vaults in six new regions: Asia Pacific (Taipei), Asia Pacific (Malaysia), Asia Pacific (New Zealand), Asia Pacific (Thailand), Mexico (Central), and Canada West (Calgary). This allows storage of immutable, isolated backups that are locked by default and encrypted using AWS-owned or customer-managed keys.

• AWS Backup

AWS Glue SAP OData connector and zero-ETL integrations are now available in AWS GovCloud (US) regions

AWS Glue SAP OData connector and zero-ETL integrations are now available in AWS GovCloud (US) regions, enabling data replication from SAP OData, Amazon DynamoDB, and Salesforce to Amazon Redshift and Amazon S3 without custom pipelines.

• AWS Glue

Amazon Cognito now supports importing users with password hashes

Amazon Cognito now allows password hashes to be included in CSV user imports, enabling immediate sign-in for imported users

• Amazon Cognito

Amazon EC2 G7e instances now available in additional regions

Amazon EC2 G7e instances, powered by NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs, deliver up to 2.3x inference performance over G6e instances

• Amazon EC2

Amazon CloudWatch Logs announces intelligent tiering for storage

Amazon CloudWatch Logs now supports intelligent storage tiering, automatically classifying log data into three tiers-Standard, Infrequent Access, and Archive Instant Access-based on access patterns. This reduces operational overhead and enables long-term log retention at lower costs.

Amazon CloudWatch Logs Insights adds 25 new query commands and functions

Amazon CloudWatch Logs Insights adds 25 new commands and functions, enabling statistical aggregation, null value handling in time-series data, log comparison across time windows, outlier detection, and event enrichment with lookup data.

• Amazon CloudWatch

AWS Control Tower Account Factory for Terraform now re-applies customizations when accounts move between OUs

AWS Control Tower Account Factory for Terraform now automatically re-applies account customizations when accounts move between OUs, eliminating manual intervention and configuration drift risks.

• AWS Control Tower

Amazon RDS now supports up to four storage modifications in 24 hours

Amazon RDS allows up to four storage modifications per database instance within a rolling 24-hour window, enabling size, type, and performance adjustments without downtime

• Amazon RDS

Amazon MSK Express Brokers adds support for Apache Kafka version 4.2

Amazon MSK Express Brokers now supports Apache Kafka version 4.2, enhancing reliability and performance with improved leader election, smoother consumer rebalances, and optimized task assignments for Kafka Streams

• Amazon MSK

Amazon RDS and Aurora expand R8gd and M8gd to additional Regions

Amazon RDS and Aurora now support R8gd and M8gd instances in additional regions, improving performance for complex queries and index rebuild operations

• Amazon Aurora

Amazon RDS and Aurora now support R8g and M8g database instances in additional AWS Regions

Amazon Aurora and RDS now offer AWS Graviton4-based R8g and M8g instances in additional regions, delivering up to 40% performance and 29% price/performance improvements

• Amazon RDS

Amazon MQ now supports configurable storage for RabbitMQ brokers

Amazon MQ allows you to configure EBS disk storage size for RabbitMQ brokers independently of instance type, enabling custom storage sizing for specific messaging workloads on M7g clusters.

• Amazon MQ

Connect Customer Outbound Campaigns now available in Cape Town, Africa

Amazon Connect Customer now offers proactive outreach via SMS, WhatsApp, and email in the Cape Town region, enabling targeted, personalized campaigns with automated triggers and analytics.

• Amazon Connect

AWS Lambda console provides a one-click setup prompt for coding agents

AWS Lambda console now offers a one-click setup prompt to configure coding agents with AWS serverless skills and the Serverless Model Context Protocol server, eliminating the need to navigate multiple documentation pages for setup.

Amazon EC2 M8in, M8idn, M8ib, M8idb instances now available in additional regions

Amazon EC2 launches M8in, M8idn, M8ib, and M8idb instances in new regions, featuring 6th-gen Intel Xeon processors and up to 43% higher performance, with enhanced networking and EBS bandwidth.

Amazon CloudWatch announces lookup processor for log enrichment

Amazon CloudWatch now supports a lookup processor that allows you to enrich log events by matching log fields against a lookup table directly within your CloudWatch Pipeline, adding metadata such as team ownership from IP addresses automatically.

AWS Lambda announces self-managed code storage

AWS Lambda now supports referencing code directly from Amazon S3 buckets, eliminating storage limits and reducing function activation time. The default limit for Lambda-managed storage has also increased from 75GB to 300GB per Region per account

• AWS Lambda

Amazon RDS for Db2 is now available in additional AWS Commercial regions

Amazon RDS for Db2 launches in new regions, enabling easy setup, operation, and scaling of Db2 databases in the cloud.

• Amazon RDS

Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports the Agent Toolkit for AWS with a curated skill

Amazon OpenSearch Service integrates with the Agent Toolkit for AWS, allowing users to build, manage, and query OpenSearch Service domains and OpenSearch Serverless collections directly from AI coding agents like Claude Code, Kiro, and Cursor using the AWS MCP server and a curated skill.

• Amazon OpenSearch Service

AWS Security Hub now provides AI inventory for organization-wide visibility of AI assets

AWS Security Hub now offers an AI inventory, giving security teams a continuous, organization-wide view of AI assets and their security posture. It automatically discovers managed AI services and self-hosted workloads across AWS environments.

• AWS Security Hub

Amazon Aurora DSQL is now available in Europe (Spain)

Amazon Aurora DSQL is now available for single-Region clusters in the Europe (Spain) Region. It is the fastest serverless, distributed SQL database with active-active high availability and multi-Region strong consistency.

Amazon WorkSpaces Personal simplifies bulk PCoIP to DCV protocol migration

Amazon WorkSpaces Personal now offers automated rollback and support for migrating stopped WorkSpaces from PCoIP to DCV, enabling large-scale protocol changes with minimal manual effort

• Amazon WorkSpaces

Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink now offers AI Agent Skills to simplify building and operating Flink applications

Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink provides AI Agent Skills, offering expert guidance for building and operating Flink applications. The skills integrate with existing AI coding agents like Kiro, Claude Code, or Cursor.

Amazon GuardDuty Introduces AI Protection for AWS AI Workloads

Amazon GuardDuty now offers AI Protection, extending threat detection to AWS AI services like Amazon Bedrock and Amazon SageMaker, enabling automatic detection of AI-specific threats such as anomalous model invocations, cost harvesting attacks, and prompt injection attempts.

AWS IAM Identity Center Achieves FedRAMP Class C Certification

AWS IAM Identity Center is now in scope for FedRAMP Class C in the US East (Ohio), US East (N. Virginia), US West (N. California), and US West (Oregon) Regions, enabling workforce access to FedRAMP Class C compliant AWS accounts and applications.

AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery reduces recovery time for AWS-to-AWS workloads

AWS DRS now skips preparation steps for EC2-based AWS workloads, reducing recovery time by up to 65% for Windows and 40% for Linux

• AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery

AWS DRS Now Supports Amazon EBS Volume Initialization Rate

AWS DRS now supports setting Amazon EBS volume initialization rates, enabling recovered volumes to reach full performance faster during drills and recoveries-particularly beneficial for I/O-intensive workloads.

• AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery

Amazon Redshift Serverless now preserves zero-ETL and Amazon S3 event integrations during snapshot restores

Amazon Redshift Serverless now automatically preserves zero-ETL and Amazon S3 event integrations when restoring a namespace from a snapshot to the same serverless namespace, eliminating manual reconfiguration and reducing data ingestion gaps

• Amazon Redshift

Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) adds support for 46 new MongoDB operators in version 8.0.1

Amazon DocumentDB now supports 46 additional MongoDB aggregation operators and cursor methods from version 8.0.1, expanding query API compatibility for easier MongoDB workload migration without application code changes

• Amazon DocumentDB

Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus is now available in Asia Pacific (New Zealand) Region

Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus offers a fully managed, Prometheus-compatible monitoring service that can handle up to 1 billion active metric series per workspace.

OpenAI GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna now generally available on Amazon Bedrock

Amazon Bedrock now generally available with OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna models, offering a range of capabilities from flagship reasoning to fast, cost-efficient inference on Bedrock's next-generation engine.

AWS Storage Gateway adds console support for copying file shares across gateways

AWS Storage Gateway now enables copying file shares between gateways directly from the console, automating configuration and streamlining migrations.

• AWS Storage Gateway

Qwen3 embedding and reranking models for retrieval are now available in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart

Amazon SageMaker JumpStart now offers Qwen3-VL-Embedding-2B and Qwen3-Reranker-4B models for information retrieval and cross-modal understanding, enabling customers to build comprehensive search pipelines on AWS infrastructure.

• Amazon SageMaker

Voxtral-Mini-4B-Realtime for real-time speech transcription now available in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart

Amazon SageMaker JumpStart now includes Mistral AI's Voxtral-Mini-4B-Realtime, a multilingual real-time speech transcription model supporting 13 languages with configurable latency and accuracy settings.

• Amazon SageMaker

OpenAI privacy-filter for PII detection and masking now available in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart

Amazon SageMaker JumpStart now offers OpenAI's privacy-filter, a bidirectional token-classification model for detecting and masking personally identifiable information (PII) in text, enabling high-throughput data sanitization workflows.

• Amazon SageMaker

gemma-4-E2B-it now available in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart

Amazon SageMaker JumpStart now offers Google DeepMind's gemma-4-E2B-it, a multimodal, instruction-tuned model optimized for efficient local execution. It processes text, image, and audio inputs, supports step-by-step reasoning, and provides capabilities like image understanding, video understanding, and code generation.

• Amazon SageMaker

Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) now available as a skill in the Agent Toolkit for AWS

Amazon DocumentDB is now available as a specialized database skill in the Agent Toolkit for AWS, enabling AI coding agents to automate cluster setup, management, migration, optimization, and troubleshooting

• Amazon DocumentDB

Amazon SageMaker HyperPod now supports custom AMIs for Slurm clusters

Amazon SageMaker HyperPod now supports custom AMIs for Slurm-orchestrated clusters, enabling customers to deploy clusters with pre-configured, security-hardened environments that meet specific organizational requirements

Amazon Location Service enhances Places APIs with new address and search options

Amazon Location Service extends Places APIs with new capabilities including address component formatting control, multilingual support, travel-optimized search, and drive-through service indicators

Amazon EKS Auto Mode now supports Application Recovery Controller zonal shift

Amazon EKS Auto Mode supports ARC zonal shift and autoshift, automatically protecting cluster availability during AZ impairments

• Amazon EKS

Amazon SageMaker HyperPod now supports AMI-based node lifecycle configuration for Slurm clusters using continuous provisioning

Amazon SageMaker HyperPod now supports AMI-based node lifecycle configuration for Slurm clusters using continuous provisioning, eliminating the need to download, configure, or upload lifecycle configuration scripts to Amazon S3.

• Amazon SageMaker

AWS DMS Schema Conversion now supports offline SQL Server conversion

AWS DMS Schema Conversion now supports offline source conversion for Microsoft SQL Server, enabling schema and code conversion without direct database connectivity.

• AWS Database Migration Service

Amazon EC2 G7 instances now available in the AWS US East (N. Virginia) Region

Amazon EC2 G7 instances feature NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs, delivering up to 4.6x AI inference and 2.1x graphics performance over G6 instances

• Amazon EC2

Amazon EMR on EKS now supports Apache Spark troubleshooting agent

Amazon EMR on EKS provides natural language job failure diagnosis and automated root cause analysis. It also integrates with MCP-compatible AI coding agents.

• Amazon EMR

Amazon EC2 R8i instances now available in additional regions

Amazon EC2 introduces R8in, R8ib, R8idn, and R8idb instances in Tokyo, Frankfurt, and Ireland regions, featuring 6th-gen Intel Xeon processors and Nitro cards for up to 43% better compute performance per vCPU, with high network and EBS bandwidth for demanding workloads

• Amazon EC2

AWS Partner Central introduces Partner Lead Prospecting

AWS Partner Central now offers AI-powered Partner Lead Prospecting to help ACE-eligible AWS Partners act on and convert leads faster

• AWS Marketplace

Amazon EC2 M8gd and R8gd instances now available in AWS GovCloud (US)

Amazon EC2 M8gd and R8gd instances are now available in AWS GovCloud (US) regions, featuring AWS Graviton4 processors and up to 11.4 TB of local NVMe-based SSD storage for improved performance and storage access.

• Amazon EC2

Amazon EC2 C8id, M8id, and R8id instances now available in additional regions

Amazon EC2 introduces C8id, M8id, and R8id instances in new regions, powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors for up to 43% higher performance and 3.3x more memory bandwidth than previous generations

• Amazon EC2

AWS Partner Central subsidiary connections now support qualification sharing

AWS Partner Central now allows partners to share qualifications across connected partner and seller accounts via subsidiary connections, enabling consolidated partnership status beyond revenue attribution.

• AWS Marketplace

Amazon SageMaker HyperPod now supports deep health checks for Slurm clusters with continuous provisioning

Amazon SageMaker HyperPod now enables proactive verification of GPU accelerator health on running instances at any time for Slurm-orchestrated clusters created with continuous provisioning, allowing comprehensive hardware validation as instances come online without interrupting existing workloads.

Amazon EC2 now supports using an EBS volume for Replace Root Volume

Amazon EC2 now allows replacing the root volume of a running instance with an existing EBS volume, eliminating the need for snapshot or AMI creation and reducing operational overhead for stateful workloads.

• Amazon EC2

Amazon EC2 I8g instances now available in AWS GovCloud (US) regions

Amazon EC2 I8g instances leverage AWS Graviton4 processors and third-generation AWS Nitro SSDs to deliver high performance for I/O-intensive workloads

OAuth support for the AWS MCP Server

The AWS MCP Server now allows AI agents to connect directly using AWS Sign-In with industry-standard OAuth, eliminating the need for additional authentication software.

• AWS IAM

AWS Organizations now applies account departure security controls by default for new organizations created via AWS Organizations console

AWS Organizations automatically applies service control policies by default when creating new organizations via the console, preventing member account departures or self-closure

• AWS Organizations

AWS DMS Schema Conversion now supports AI agent automation

AWS DMS Schema Conversion now integrates with AI coding agents like Kiro, Claude Code, and Cursor, enabling complete migration workflows via natural language directly from the IDE. Predefined procedures guide agents in project creation, metadata browsing, schema conversion, report generation, and result export.

• AWS Database Migration Service

Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) now supports R8g.24xlarge and R8g.48xlarge instances

Amazon DocumentDB now supports R8g.24xlarge and R8g.48xlarge instances powered by AWS Graviton4 processors and DDR5 memory, enabling higher throughput and larger memory workloads

• Amazon DocumentDB

Amazon EC2 I7ie instances now available in AWS Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) region

Amazon EC2 I7ie instances feature 5th Gen Intel Xeon Processors with a 3.2 GHz all-core turbo frequency, offering up to 40% better compute performance and 20% better price performance over existing I3en instances, with up to 120TB of local NVMe storage and up to 65% better real-time storage performance.

• Amazon EC2

Amazon MSK Replicator now supports replication from external Apache Kafka clusters to MSK Standard brokers

Amazon MSK Replicator now supports data replication from external Apache Kafka clusters to MSK Standard brokers, using SASL/SCRAM or mutual TLS authentication, while preserving original topic names and avoiding infinite loops.

• Amazon MSK

Amazon SageMaker Feature Store now supports batch feature writes and record listing

Amazon SageMaker Feature Store adds batch feature writes and record listing capabilities, enabling scalable feature data processing and management

• Amazon SageMaker

Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio adds custom asset types to the catalog in IAM-based domains

Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio now supports custom asset types for IAM-based domains, enabling cataloging of any asset format such as medical imaging files, PowerBI dashboards, or PDF reports

• Amazon SageMaker

AWS Client VPN extends availability to four additional AWS Regions

AWS Client VPN is now available in four new regions: Canada West (Calgary), Mexico (Central), and two in Asia Pacific - New Zealand and Taipei. This fully managed service enables secure connections for remote workforces to AWS or on-premises resources.

Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB now publishes database state change events to Amazon EventBridge

Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB now emits events to Amazon EventBridge when database instances or clusters undergo state changes, enabling automated responses via EventBridge rules without API polling.

• Amazon Timestream

Amazon EC2 M8gd and R8gd instances now available in additional AWS Regions

Amazon EC2 M8gd and R8gd instances are now available in Europe and Asia Pacific regions, featuring up to 11.4TB of NVMe SSD storage and Graviton4 processors for up to 30% better performance over Graviton3-based instances

• Amazon EC2

AWS Config now supports 191 additional managed rules

AWS Config adds 191 new managed rules across key services like Amazon Bedrock and SageMaker, enhancing governance for AI workloads and core cloud infrastructure

• AWS Config

AWS Neuron 2.31.0 now available with NKI 0.5.0 and UltraServer Operator

AWS Neuron has been updated to version 2.31.0, introducing NKI 0.5.0 and the UltraServer Operator. Performance improvements and new features are included.

Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio Workflows now supports operators for Amazon Bedrock, S3 Tables, S3 Vectors, and Glue Catalog

Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio Workflows adds 19 new operators for Amazon Bedrock, S3 Tables, S3 Vectors, AWS Glue Data Catalog, and Amazon MWAA Serverless, allowing users to orchestrate these services visually without custom integration code.

• Amazon MWAA

AWS Builder Center Now Offers Free Sandbox Environments

AWS Builder Center now provides free, time-limited sandbox environments for workshop participants, eliminating the need for an AWS account or credit card and enabling safe experimentation with AWS resources.

Amazon Connect Customer now supports forecasting, planning, and scheduling for Tasks and Emails

Amazon Connect Customer now supports forecasting, planning, and scheduling for Tasks and Emails, enabling workforce optimization across all workloads including Voice, Chat, Tasks, and Emails

• Amazon Connect

Amazon Aurora DSQL change data capture (CDC) is now generally available

Amazon Aurora DSQL now offers change data capture (CDC), enabling real-time database change streaming to Amazon Kinesis Data Streams for event-driven architectures and data integration workflows

Amazon Redshift RG instances now available on the trailing track

Amazon Redshift now supports Graviton-based RG instances on the trailing track, offering up to 2.4x faster query performance and 30% lower cost per vCPU compared to RA3 instances.

• Amazon Redshift

AWS Security Hub now offers Network Scanning to identify publicly reachable resources

AWS Security Hub introduces Network Scanning to identify resources actually reachable from the public internet, detecting public IPs, VMs, load balancers, open ports, and services behind them.

• AWS Security Hub

Amazon SageMaker now supports data lineage in IAM-based domains

Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio now supports OpenLineage compatible data lineage in IAM-based domains, capturing lineage events from Apache Spark jobs and providing interactive lineage graphs and a DeleteLineageEvent API

• Amazon SageMaker

Amazon S3 Vectors now available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions

Amazon S3 Vectors provides purpose-built vector storage for AI agents and RAG, now available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions.

• Amazon S3

Amazon GameLift Streams introduces secure terminal access for stream sessions

Amazon GameLift Streams now supports Stream Session Admin Shell, enabling secure terminal access to inspect logs, processes, and GPU utilization without managing SSH keys or infrastructure credentials

• Amazon GameLift

Amazon EC2 High Memory U7i instances now available in AWS Europe (Zurich) region

Amazon EC2 High Memory U7i instances offer 12TB of memory and custom fourth-gen Intel Xeon processors, ideal for mission-critical in-memory databases like SAP HANA, Oracle, and SQL Server

• Amazon EC2

Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports Oracle Database 26ai

Amazon RDS for Oracle adds support for Oracle's latest long-term support release, 26ai, enabling natural language to SQL generation and in-database RAG implementations

• Amazon RDS

Amazon Redshift RG instances now available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions

Amazon Redshift RG instances are now available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions, offering up to 2.4x faster performance and 30% lower cost per vCPU than previous RA3 instances

• Amazon Redshift

Amazon EC2 C8ine instances now available in AWS Europe (Frankfurt) region

Amazon EC2 C8ine instances feature sixth-generation Intel Xeon processors, delivering up to 43% higher performance and significantly improved network throughput for security and network virtual appliances.

• Amazon EC2

Amazon EMR Serverless now supports larger worker sizes for compute and memory intensive workloads

Amazon EMR Serverless now offers larger worker configurations with 32 vCPUs and up to 244 GB of memory, enabling more compute and memory-intensive workloads

• Amazon EMR

Amazon ECS Managed Instances reduces GPU management fees by up to 60%

Amazon ECS Managed Instances now offers a 35% reduction for G-series and 60% reduction for P-series and AWS Trainium instances, applying automatically to existing customers with no action required

• Amazon ECS

Amazon SageMaker HyperPod now supports disaggregated prefill and decode

Amazon SageMaker HyperPod supports Disaggregated Prefill and Decode (DPD), separating LLM inference phases to dedicated GPU pools for consistent latency and higher throughput

Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio now supports importing existing MWAA environments

Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio adds support for connecting existing Amazon MWAA environments, allowing data engineers and platform teams to manage Airflow workflows from the same interface used for analytics and machine learning.

• Amazon MWAA

AWS Systems Manager simplifies Azure VM management and hybrid node pricing

AWS Systems Manager now enables management of Azure virtual machines without manual agent installation or per-instance tier fees, and eliminates the Advanced Instances Tier for hybrid and multicloud nodes.

• AWS Systems Manager

Amazon S3 Express One Zone is now available in the AWS Europe (Frankfurt) Region

Amazon S3 Express One Zone is a high-performance, single-AZ storage class designed for single-digit millisecond data access, offering up to 10x faster data access and 80% lower request costs than S3 Standard, enabling fast data access for ML training and interactive analytics.

• Amazon S3

AWS introduces declarative controls for VPC Encryption Controls

AWS now offers declarative policies for VPC Encryption Controls, enabling centralized management and consistent application across all VPCs in monitoring or enforcement mode.

• Amazon VPC

Amazon SageMaker Studio now integrates with Hugging Face for one-click model deployment and customization

Amazon SageMaker Studio now integrates directly with Hugging Face, allowing users to select a model and customize or deploy it within a pre-configured Studio environment in one click. New customers receive a ready-to-use environment with pre-configured permissions, while existing customers can access directly from Hugging Face.

• Amazon SageMaker

Amazon Cognito now supports self-service provisioned API rate limits

Amazon Cognito now allows users to instantly adjust their rate limits up or down to the account-level maximum using the console or new API operations, eliminating the need for manual service quota requests.

• Amazon Cognito

AWS Security Hub adds impact analysis for exposure findings

AWS Security Hub introduces impact analysis for exposure findings, helping security teams understand the full scope of potential attacker access

• AWS Security Hub

Amazon EKS Auto Mode reduces GPU management fees by up to 60%

Amazon EKS Auto Mode now offers significantly reduced management fees for GPU and accelerated instance types, with reductions of 35% for G-series and 60% for P-series and AWS Trainium, applying automatically to all clusters.

• Amazon EKS

CloudWatch Application Signals now automatically captures errors, performance anomalies, and deployment events

Amazon CloudWatch Application Signals now automatically captures exception and latency event snapshots, function-level performance data, and deployment events from instrumented services without additional code changes.

AWS Certificate Manager now supports the ACME protocol for public certificates

AWS Certificate Manager provides a fully managed ACME server endpoint for issuing public TLS certificates with 45-day validity via ACMEv2-compatible clients, enabling automated certificate management and centralized policy enforcement

Amazon EVS supports VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0 and 9.1

Amazon EVS now supports VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0 and the newly released 9.1, enabling full control over installation, operations, and management on EC2 bare-metal instances.

AWS Secrets Manager adds managed external secrets support for Paddle and GitLab

AWS Secrets Manager now supports automatic rotation of Paddle API keys and GitLab access tokens, enabling seamless transitions with configurable grace periods for Paddle and atomic rotation for GitLab

• AWS Secrets Manager

AWS CodePipeline now available in Asia Pacific (New Zealand) region

AWS CodePipeline is available in major regions, automating build, test, and deployment on code changes through a defined workflow

AWS CodeBuild now supports Amazon Linux 2023 for on-demand build hosts

AWS CodeBuild adds support for Amazon Linux 2023 on on-demand build hosts, offering an updated Linux kernel and package improvements

• AWS CodeBuild

Amazon SageMaker HyperPod now supports AMI versioning and auto-patching

Amazon SageMaker HyperPod provides visibility into AMI versions across clusters and automatically applies security patches without disrupting workloads, helping maintain cluster security and consistency while reducing manual patching efforts

Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio now supports Terraform for provisioning

Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio now supports Terraform for infrastructure-as-code deployment through version-controlled templates

• Amazon SageMaker

AWS Config now supports 8 new resource types

AWS Config adds support for 8 new resource types across Amazon API Gateway, Amazon EC2, and Amazon S3 Vectors, expanding coverage of AWS resources for discovery, assessment, auditing, and remediation

• AWS Config

Amazon EC2 Dedicated Hosts now support AMD SEV-SNP

Amazon EC2 Dedicated Hosts now support AMD SEV-SNP, enabling customers to run confidential computing workloads on fully dedicated physical servers with control over instance placement and host affinity.

• Amazon EC2

Amazon EC2 X8i instances now available in additional regions

Amazon EC2 X8i instances offer up to 43% higher performance and 1.5x more memory capacity compared to previous generation X2i instances, targeting memory-intensive workloads

• Amazon EC2

Amazon ECS now supports configurable deployment circuit breaker settings

Amazon ECS now allows customization of deployment circuit breaker settings, enabling users to define failure thresholds as fixed counts or percentages and choose between consecutive or cumulative failure counting models.

• Amazon ECS
• AWS Fargate

Amazon ECS now provides real-time deployment observability in the AWS Management Console

Amazon ECS offers real-time deployment monitoring in the console, enabling users to track progress, health, and diagnose failures directly

• Amazon ECS
• AWS Fargate

Amazon CloudWatch supports creating alarms from log queries

Amazon CloudWatch now allows creating alarms directly from log queries, eliminating intermediate steps and enabling monitoring and alerting within the log analysis workflow

AWS Security Agent now available in Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Singapore), and South America (São Paulo)

AWS Security Agent enhances security across the development lifecycle with STRIDE-based threat modeling, code reviews, and penetration testing now available in additional regions.

Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus achieves FedRAMP High and DoD IL-4/5 authorization in AWS GovCloud (US)

Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus is now FedRAMP High and DoD CC SRG IL-4/5 authorized in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions, enabling secure monitoring for sensitive environments.

Amazon EKS now supports Kubernetes version rollback

Amazon EKS now allows Kubernetes minor version rollback within 7 days after an upgrade, providing a safety net for production validation

• Amazon EKS

Amazon ECS Express Mode now supports custom task definitions

Amazon ECS Express Mode now supports custom task definitions, allowing the use of existing ECS application configurations and advanced task-level customizations. This enables reuse of task definitions from existing CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code workflows.

• Amazon ECS
• AWS Fargate

AWS AppConfig launches managed experimentation tools for A/B testing

AWS AppConfig now offers experimentation tools with AI guidance for running A/B tests and feature experiments across EC2, Lambda, ECS, EKS, and on-premises servers.

Amazon GuardDuty adds sensitive file modification threat detections

Amazon GuardDuty Runtime Monitoring now includes new threat detections for sensitive file modifications on Amazon EC2, EKS, and ECS, helping identify post-compromise attacker activities.

• Amazon EC2
• Amazon EKS
• Amazon GuardDuty
• Amazon ECS

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore now available in four additional AWS Regions

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, the platform for building, connecting, and optimizing agents, is now available in four new AWS Regions: Asia Pacific (Bangkok), Asia Pacific (Malaysia), Europe (Milan), and Europe (Spain).

• Amazon Bedrock

Amazon RDS announces Cross-Region Automated Backups in four additional AWS Regions

Amazon RDS now offers cross-region automated backup replication in four additional regions, enhancing recovery capabilities for mission-critical databases.

• Amazon RDS

AWS Partner Central now supports AWS Marketplace listings for co-selling

AWS Partner Central now allows partners to associate existing AWS Marketplace solutions and products directly with co-selling opportunities, streamlining management and improving fulfillment tracking.

• AWS Marketplace

AWS Artifact now includes Assurance Assistant for compliance inquiries

AWS Artifact adds Assurance Assistant, an AI-powered tool that generates citation-backed responses to security and compliance questions, supporting both single queries and bulk XLSX uploads.

• AWS Artifact

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore increases default runtime quota limits

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore has increased default runtime quota limits, allowing users to run more AI agents simultaneously

• Amazon Bedrock

CloudWatch Application Signals now supports Dynamic Instrumentation

Amazon CloudWatch Application Signals now supports dynamic instrumentation, allowing developers to inspect runtime state without restarts or redeployments.

Amazon Connect Customer now supports assigning up to 7 security profiles per user with granular access controls

Amazon Connect Customer increases the limit of security profiles per user from 2 to 7, enabling granular access controls for each business line

• Amazon Connect

Amazon Connect Customer now supports rule-based redaction for agent screen recording

Amazon Connect Customer now allows you to create rules to automatically redact specific applications or URLs from agent screen recordings, helping supervisors identify compliance issues more effectively.

• Amazon Connect

Amazon EC2 C9g and C9gd compute optimized instances are now available

Amazon EC2 launches C9g and C9gd instances powered by AWS Graviton5 processors, offering up to 25% better compute performance and featuring the Nitro Isolation Engine for enhanced security.

• Amazon EC2

AWS announces AWS Interconnect - last mile with AT&T in gated preview

AWS Interconnect - last mile offers a fully managed connectivity service to link branch offices and data centers to AWS with a few clicks, now in gated preview with AT&T, combining AWS cloud innovation with AT&T's extensive network for high availability and SLA-backed service.

• AWS Direct Connect

Claude Sonnet 5 is now available on AWS

Available via Amazon Bedrock and Claude Platform on AWS, delivering high performance for coding, agents, and knowledge work

• Amazon Bedrock

AWS Network Firewall now supports container attribute-based inspection for Amazon EKS and Amazon ECS

AWS Network Firewall introduces container attribute-based rules for Amazon EKS and ECS, simplifying security for containerized workloads by using native container constructs instead of IP-based rules.

• AWS Network Firewall
• Amazon EKS
• Amazon ECS

Amazon OpenSearch Service optimized for log analytics

Amazon OpenSearch Service introduces a new engine purpose-built for log analytics, delivering up to 4x better price-performance and combining full-text search with analytical queries.

• Amazon OpenSearch Service

Amazon RDS for Db2 now supports self-managed Active Directory

Amazon RDS for Db2 enables direct joining of RDS for Db2 DB instances to domains of self-managed Microsoft Active Directory, allowing Kerberos authentication for single sign-on without AWS Managed Microsoft AD.

• Amazon RDS

Amazon SageMaker AI now supports serverless model customization for Gemma 4 models

Amazon SageMaker AI adds serverless model customization for Gemma 4 E4B and 31B models using supervised fine-tuning, direct preference optimization, and reinforcement fine-tuning

• Amazon SageMaker

IAM Identity Center now enables programmatic AWS account access for customer managed applications

IAM Identity Center allows customer managed applications to programmatically access AWS accounts on behalf of users, eliminating redundant sign-in prompts after external IdP authentication.

AWS Security Hub CSPM launches AI Security Best Practices standard with 31 automated controls

AWS Security Hub CSPM introduces an AI Security Best Practices standard with 31 automated controls to evaluate Amazon Bedrock and SageMaker workloads against security configurations

• AWS Security Hub

Amazon SageMaker AI cuts generative AI inference scale-out time by up to half with automatic container image caching

Amazon SageMaker Inference now supports container image caching, enabling up to 2x faster end-to-end scaling for generative AI models during scale-out events by pre-caching container images so new instances can start serving traffic faster without waiting to pull large images from Amazon ECR.

• Amazon SageMaker

Announcing Capability Insights for AWS, an open-source solution for regional capabilities

AWS has launched Capability Insights, an open-source solution that allows deployment of regional capabilities data within your own Amazon VPC. This self-hosted dashboard meets data residency and compliance requirements by keeping all data within your network and providing full control over the infrastructure.

Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling now supports reservations-then-balanced Availability Zone distribution

Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling offers a new strategy that prioritizes launching instances into capacity reservations before evenly distributing remaining capacity across Availability Zones, maximizing utilization of pre-purchased capacity.

• Amazon EC2

Announcing general availability of Amazon WorkSpaces for AI agents

Amazon WorkSpaces for AI agents is now generally available, enabling AI agents to securely access and operate desktop applications through managed WorkSpaces environments.

• Amazon WorkSpaces

Amazon Time Sync Service adds support for Microsecond accurate time on 26 additional EC2 instance types in all commercial regions

Amazon Time Sync Service now supports microsecond accurate time on 26 additional EC2 instance types, leveraging the AWS Nitro System for improved application event ordering and distributed transaction speeds

• Amazon EC2

AWS End User Messaging RCS now supports rich media and interactive messaging

AWS End User Messaging adds support for rich media and interactive messaging via RCS across 22 countries, enabling rich cards, carousels, images, videos, and interactive buttons, with RCS conversation pricing in 21 countries.

Amazon Neptune announces dual stack support with IPv6

Amazon Neptune now supports dual-stack mode, allowing database clusters to accept connections over IPv4, IPv6, or both protocols simultaneously. Private and public configurations are available.

• Amazon Neptune

Amazon ElastiCache T4g nodes now available in additional AWS Regions

Amazon ElastiCache now supports T4g node types in additional AWS Regions, offering burstable CPU performance powered by AWS Graviton2 processors for applications with temporary usage spikes.

AWS Parallel Computing Service supports in-place Slurm major version upgrades

AWS Parallel Computing Service now supports managed in-place Slurm version upgrades for existing clusters, allowing upgrades with no disruption to running jobs and preserving accounting data.

Amazon RDS Enhances IAM Database Authentication with Connection Rate Scaling

Amazon RDS now offers dynamic connection scaling for IAM database authentication, allowing connection rates to scale with instance resources. This enables enterprise workloads to handle high-volume connection patterns efficiently.

• Amazon RDS

AWS CloudFormation and CDK express mode speeds up infrastructure deployments by up to 4x

AWS CloudFormation and CDK now offer an express mode, reducing deployment time by up to 4x. Deployments complete once resource configurations are applied, without waiting for extended stabilization checks like traffic readiness or region propagation.

AWS CloudFormation and CDK accelerate development feedback loops with pre-deployment validation on all stack operations

AWS CloudFormation now runs pre-deployment validation on Create Stack and Update Stack operations, accelerating development velocity across all workflows

Amazon CloudWatch Logs enriches log events with AWS resource tags

Amazon CloudWatch Logs now adds resource tags directly to log events at ingestion time, enabling easier filtering, searching, and analysis of logs by metadata such as team ownership, environment, or cost center-without requiring changes to logging instrumentation.

AWS Security Hub extends unified security management to Microsoft Azure

AWS Security Hub now monitors Microsoft Azure resources, unifying risk analytics and security posture management across both clouds. It automatically detects Azure VMs, container images, and more.

• Amazon Inspector
• AWS Security Hub

AWS Service Availability Updates

AWS announces maintenance transitions and end-of-support for services including Amazon Bedrock Agents and Amazon WorkSpaces, affecting new customers and requiring migration planning for existing users.

Amazon CloudWatch pipelines now supports processing and enriching OpenTelemetry metrics

Amazon CloudWatch pipelines now enables processing and enriching OpenTelemetry metrics during ingestion. Users can add business context, remove high-cardinality labels, and enforce naming conventions without custom processing layers or modifying application instrumentation.

• Amazon CloudWatch

AWS WAF adds support for Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Gateway

AWS WAF now protects agentic AI workloads on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Gateway with IP controls, rate limiting, and managed rules

• AWS WAF

AWS Clean Rooms now supports intermediate tables for SQL

AWS Clean Rooms now allows storing SQL query results as intermediate tables within a collaboration, enabling multi-step analytical workflows while preserving privacy.

• AWS Clean Rooms

Amazon GameLift Servers announces DDoS Protection client SDKs for C# and Unity

Amazon GameLift Servers now offers DDoS Protection client SDKs for C# and Unity, helping game developers protect session-based multiplayer games against DDoS attacks with no additional cost and negligible latency.

• Amazon GameLift

OpenAI GPT-5.4 and NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super 120B now available on Kiro in AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region

Kiro now offers OpenAI GPT-5.4 and NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super 120B in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region. GPT-5.4 supports complex reasoning and coding with a 272K context window, while Nemotron 3 Super 120B provides efficient computation and fast inference for agentic tasks.

Claude Opus 4.8 is now available in AWS GovCloud (US)

Amazon Bedrock now offers Claude Opus 4.8, enhancing capabilities for agentic coding, knowledge work, and long-running tasks in AWS GovCloud (US)

• Amazon Bedrock

Amazon MWAA Serverless now supports shared VPC configurations

Amazon MWAA Serverless now correctly validates subnet ownership in shared VPC configurations, enabling workflow creation in member accounts using shared subnets via AWS RAM.

• Amazon MWAA

Amazon S3 server access logs now deliver to Amazon CloudWatch Logs and Amazon S3 Tables

Amazon S3 now delivers server access logs to CloudWatch Logs, enabling instant querying, alarms, cross-account and cross-Region aggregation, and KMS encryption. Logs can also be mirrored to S3 Tables in Apache Iceberg format at no additional storage cost, allowing direct SQL querying with Athena, Redshift, and other Iceberg-compatible engines.

• Amazon S3

Amazon EC2 R8g instances now available in additional regions

Amazon EC2 R8g instances, powered by AWS Graviton4 processors, are now available in new regions, offering up to 30% better performance than Graviton3-based instances for memory-intensive workloads.

• Amazon EC2

Amazon EC2 C8in instances now available in additional regions

Amazon EC2 C8in instances offer up to 384 vCPUs and 600 Gbps network bandwidth, ideal for network-intensive workloads

• Amazon EC2

Amazon EC2 M8a instances now available in the Asia Pacific (Mumbai) region

Amazon EC2 M8a instances feature 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors, delivering up to 30% higher performance and 19% better price-performance over M7a instances, ideal for latency-sensitive workloads.

• Amazon EC2

Amazon EC2 C7a instances now available in the Asia Pacific (Singapore) Region

Amazon EC2 C7a instances, powered by 4th Gen AMD EPYC processors, deliver up to 50% higher performance than C6a instances and support more EBS volume attachments

• Amazon EC2

Amazon Redshift adds Reserved Instance upfront pricing options for RG instances

Amazon Redshift now offers All Upfront and Partial Upfront payment options for 1-year and 3-year reserved instances on RG instances, enhancing cost optimization flexibility

• Amazon Redshift

Kiro achieves FedRAMP High and DoD IL-4/5 authorization in AWS GovCloud (US)

Kiro has obtained FedRAMP High and DoD IL-4/5 authorization in AWS GovCloud (US), enabling secure development for sensitive workloads

AWS Network Firewall now supports managed threat intelligence rules from VisionHeight

AWS Network Firewall adds new managed rule groups from VisionHeight, offering zero-day threat protection and blocking noisy scanners and Tor traffic

• AWS Network Firewall

OpenAI GPT, OpenAI GPT OSS, and NVIDIA Nemotron models on Amazon Bedrock receive FedRAMP High and DoD IL-4/5 approval in AWS GovCloud (US)

Amazon Bedrock now supports these models certified for FedRAMP High and DoD IL-4/5 in AWS GovCloud (US), enabling government agencies to build compliant generative AI applications with high-performance serverless inference powered by Mantle.

• Amazon Bedrock

Amazon RDS Custom now supports the latest CU and GDR updates for Microsoft SQL Server

Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server now supports the latest Cumulative Updates (CU) and General Distribution Release (GDR) updates for Microsoft SQL Server, addressing security vulnerability CVE-2026-40370

• Amazon RDS

Amazon Route 53 Global Resolver Now Supports Sharing DNS Views Between AWS Accounts

Amazon Route 53 Global Resolver now allows sharing DNS views with other AWS accounts using AWS RAM. Consumer accounts can associate their own Route 53 private hosted zones with a shared DNS view, making their records resolvable through the owner's global resolver in every AWS Region where it runs.

Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion now available in AWS Europe (Paris) Region

Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion is now generally available in the Europe (Paris) Region, enabling data ingestion and preprocessing for Amazon OpenSearch Service clusters and serverless collections.

• Amazon OpenSearch Service

Amazon RDS now supports the latest GDR updates for Microsoft SQL Server

Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports the latest General Distribution Release updates for Microsoft SQL Server, addressing security vulnerabilities

• Amazon RDS

AWS Backup enhances Amazon S3 backup copy performance

AWS Backup speeds up S3 backup copy operations by up to 8x for buckets with millions of objects and low change rates, reducing cross-account and cross-Region copy times.

• AWS Backup

AWS GovCloud (US) now offers US-based, US citizen 24/7 technical support for all customers by default

AWS GovCloud (US) now provides all customers with 24/7 technical support from US-based, US-citizen engineers by default, ensuring faster resolution within regulated environments.

AWS IoT Device SDK for Swift is now generally available

AWS IoT Device SDK for Swift is now generally available, enabling Swift developers to build secure, scalable IoT applications natively on Apple platforms including macOS, iOS, and tvOS, as well as Linux

Amazon EMR Serverless now supports live configuration updates without application restarts

Amazon EMR Serverless allows updates to key application configurations such as maximum capacity and custom image settings without stopping and restarting the application.

• Amazon EMR

Amazon EC2 announces AMI Watermarks for improved AMI governance

Amazon EC2 introduces AMI watermarks, allowing embedding of custom identifiers in private AMIs to enhance tracking and governance across the organization

• Amazon EC2

Amazon ElastiCache now supports Valkey 9.1

Amazon ElastiCache supports Valkey 9.1 for node-based clusters, offering higher throughput, improved memory efficiency, and stronger access control for multi-tenant workloads

• Amazon ElastiCache

Amazon GuardDuty AI-powered investigations accelerate threat response (Preview)

Amazon GuardDuty introduces AI-powered investigations in preview, helping security teams focus on genuine threats

• Amazon GuardDuty

Amazon EC2 High Memory U7in-24TB instances now available in AWS Asia Pacific (Seoul) region

Amazon EC2 U7in-24TB instances offer 24 TiB of DDR5 memory and 896 vCPUs, ideal for mission-critical in-memory databases such as SAP HANA, Oracle, and SQL Server

• Amazon EC2

Amazon CloudWatch now supports tags on dashboards

Amazon CloudWatch adds tag support for dashboards, enabling organization, access control, and filtering of dashboards using tags

• Amazon CloudWatch

Amazon Neptune now supports AWS CloudFormation for global databases

Amazon Neptune now supports AWS CloudFormation for global databases, enabling multi-region topology definition as code.

Amazon CloudWatch launches OTel Container Insights for Amazon EKS

Amazon CloudWatch now offers OTel Container Insights for Amazon EKS, collecting infrastructure metrics at 30-second intervals using open-source receivers like cAdvisor and Kube State Metrics, enabling cross-node and pod correlation via PromQL.

Amazon Bedrock Guardrails adds new automated policy refinement workflows

Amazon Bedrock Guardrails now offers new automated policy refinement workflows. The iterative policy improvement and ambiguity reduction workflows help customers enhance their policies with less manual effort, leading to more reliable Guardrail validation results.

• Amazon Bedrock

Amazon Cognito now supports customer managed key for encryption at rest

Amazon Cognito supports encrypting user pool data at rest with customer managed keys in AWS KMS, enhancing data access control and audit capabilities.

• Amazon Cognito

AWS HealthOmics now supports ephemeral storage for private workflows

AWS HealthOmics adds ephemeral storage for private workflows, providing dedicated scratch space for bioinformatics workloads to improve run performance and reduce costs.

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Memory now supports cross-account access

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Memory enables multi-account architectures, allowing memory resources and agents across AWS accounts. Use resource-based policies to grant access and configure delivery to separate accounts.

• Amazon Bedrock

SageMaker Notebook Instances now support G6e instance types

Amazon SageMaker notebook instances now support EC2 G6e instances with NVIDIA L40s GPUs, enabling deployment of large language models and diffusion models for interactive training and fine-tuning.

• Amazon SageMaker

Amazon CloudWatch Logs supports managed syslog ingestion

Amazon CloudWatch Logs now supports managed syslog ingestion, allowing direct sending of syslog messages from firewalls, routers, and Linux servers via TCP/UDP to a VPC endpoint without agents.

Amazon Connect Customer launches Agentic CX designer (NLX) in preview

Amazon Connect Customer now offers Agentic CX designer (NLX) in preview, a no-code canvas for designing AI-powered self-service experiences with Live Sync to guide customers in real time.

• Amazon Connect

Claude Tag now available in beta via Claude Enterprise in AWS Marketplace

Anthropic launches Claude Tag in beta, enabling direct access to Claude within Slack channels for AWS Marketplace customers using Claude Enterprise, with per-channel scoping and spend controls

MSK Replicator now supports mutual TLS (mTLS) authentication for replication from external Apache Kafka clusters to MSK Express brokers

Amazon MSK Replicator now supports mTLS authentication for data replication from external Apache Kafka clusters to MSK Express brokers, enabling migration, disaster recovery, and data distribution across hybrid and multi-cloud environments

• Amazon MSK

Amazon MSK now offers AI Agent Skills to help developers operate MSK efficiently and accelerate migrations to MSK

Amazon MSK provides AI agent skills that offer expert guidance for operating MSK, helping developers automate tasks and migrate to MSK Express, compatible with existing AI coding agents.

• Amazon MSK

AWS Transform for migrations now supports all AWS commercial regions as migration targets

AWS Transform for migrations now supports all AWS commercial regions, simplifying deployments that meet data residency requirements

AWS introduces Lambda MicroVMs for isolated execution of user and AI-generated code

AWS Lambda now offers MicroVMs, providing VM-level isolation, near-instant launch and resume speeds, and state preservation for executing user or AI-generated code

AWS HealthOmics now supports Nextflow profiles

AWS HealthOmics now supports Nextflow profiles, allowing customers to activate predefined execution settings at runtime. This separates platform-specific settings from core workflow logic, reducing errors and accelerating scaling from development to production.

Amazon SageMaker Studio notebooks now support G7e instance types

Amazon SageMaker Studio notebooks now support G7e instances featuring up to 8 NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 GPUs, 96 GB GPU memory, and 5th Gen Intel Xeon processors, enabling deployment of large language models and AI workloads

Amazon OpenSearch Service now offers AI-assisted migrations

Amazon OpenSearch Service's Migration Assistant adds AI-assisted capabilities, simplifying migration of self-managed Apache Solr, Elasticsearch, or OpenSearch deployments to OpenSearch Serverless or Managed Clusters using tools like Kiro and Claude Code

• Amazon OpenSearch Service

AWS IAM Identity Center now supports separate quotas for AWS accounts and applications

AWS IAM Identity Center now allows separate quotas for AWS accounts and applications, enabling independent management of each up to 7,000 by default without one consuming the other's capacity.

AWS Batch now supports customer-ordered instance allocation strategies

AWS Batch introduces BFPO and SCOP allocation strategies, allowing users to define instance type ordering based on workload-specific performance characteristics

AWS Network Firewall updates default drop action for improved connection reliability

AWS Network Firewall changes the default stateful action for new firewall policies to improve connection reliability and prevent dropped packets

• AWS Network Firewall

Introducing self-service lifecycle management capabilities for AWS Outposts

AWS Outposts now enables self-service configuration, quoting, ordering, subscription management, renewal, and decommissioning directly from the AWS Management Console, CLI, and API

Nested virtualization now available on additional Intel platforms and AWS GovCloud (US) regions

AWS now offers nested virtualization on additional Intel instances and AWS GovCloud (US) regions, enabling KVM or Hyper-V execution on virtual EC2 instances for various use cases.

• Amazon EC2

AWS Parallel Computing Service supports P6e-GB200 and P6e-GB300 UltraServers

AWS Parallel Computing Service now supports Amazon EC2 P6e-GB200 and P6e-GB300 UltraServer instances, enabling large-scale GPU workloads using the NVIDIA Blackwell architecture within Slurm-managed clusters.

AWS Compute Optimizer enhances EBS volume recommendations with additional performance metrics

AWS Compute Optimizer now analyzes CloudWatch metrics to detect IOPS and throughput spikes, aiding cost-performance balance for bursty workloads

• AWS Compute Optimizer