We deliver concise summaries of official AWS update announcements.
AWS Compute Optimizer now analyzes CloudWatch metrics to detect IOPS and throughput spikes, aiding cost-performance balance for bursty workloads
AWS now offers nested virtualization on additional Intel platforms and US GovCloud regions, enabling KVM or Hyper-V on virtual EC2 instances
Amazon MSK now enables Intelligent Rebalancing for Express brokers on existing clusters, simplifying automatic partition balancing during scaling.
Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics introduces multilocation canaries, enabling developers and site reliability engineers to run the same canary across multiple AWS Regions simultaneously from a single management point
AWS launches a new Local Zone in Hanoi, supporting Amazon S3 and Amazon EBS Local Snapshots for local data storage and backup
Amazon SNS enables customers in the Asia Pacific (Seoul) Region to send SMS text messages to subscribers in over 200 countries and territories
Amazon SageMaker AI provides new observability capabilities for inference endpoints, enabling real-time monitoring of token performance, GPU health, and infrastructure status to quickly diagnose and resolve issues.
Amazon EKS introduces customer-routed control plane egress, allowing outbound Kubernetes API server traffic to be routed through your own VPC. This enables organizations with data perimeter requirements or compliance mandates to reach private OIDC providers and webhook servers accessible only within their VPC and control traffic routing.
Amazon SageMaker JumpStart now offers the Ministral-3-14B-Instruct-2512 model, featuring multimodal capabilities and agentic functions in a compact 14B-parameter architecture optimized for edge deployment, supporting multiple languages.
Amazon SageMaker JumpStart now offers the all-MiniLM-L12-v2 model for semantic search and sentence similarity. This compact model provides fast inference with high-quality embeddings for information retrieval and text clustering applications
Amazon Connect Customer now supports interrupting an agent with a contact, overriding their usual routing configuration for urgent or time-sensitive work. This allows direct assignment of certain contacts to specific agents even when they are in a custom status.
Amazon MQ for RabbitMQ now supports private networking, enabling brokers to connect to private resources in a VPC without public exposure, enhancing security and compliance.
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
Amazon ECS service auto scaling now detects and responds to load changes faster with support for high resolution (20-second) metrics and metric publishing optimizations
AWS announces Ubuntu 24.04 LTS bundles for Amazon WorkSpaces Personal in the AWS China (Ningxia) Region, offering updated packages and security improvements.
Amazon GameLift Servers now allows customization of Linux capabilities for containers and retrieval of comprehensive network information for all containers on the same instance, enhancing control and communication between game servers and auxiliary services.
Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports larger General Purpose (gp3) volumes with up to 64 TiB size, 80,000 IOPS, and 2,000 MiB/s throughput, enabling better performance for high-throughput OLTP and large-scale analytical workloads.
Amazon Aurora MySQL and RDS for MySQL have extended support for MySQL 5.7 through June 30, 2029, from the previous end date of February 28, 2027, providing continued security patches and bug fixes.
Amazon RDS now generally available for Graviton5-based M9g instances, offering up to 30% performance improvement and 23% price/performance improvement over Graviton4-based instances
AWS DevOps Agent now offers a release management capability in preview, evaluating code changes for production safety and running autonomous release testing to help ship code to production safely and confidently.
AWS HealthOmics enables real-time monitoring of workflow execution progress via CloudWatch, supporting alarms, dashboards, and integration with existing tools
AWS Glue Interactive Sessions now supports Apache Spark Connect, enabling users to develop and run Spark applications from their preferred environments on AWS Glue's serverless infrastructure without managing clusters
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore now generally available with managed agent harness, allowing users to define agents through configuration and switch models mid-session
Amazon Quick now integrates with 16 additional tools across productivity, design, analytics, data infrastructure, financial intelligence, commerce, and communication, enabling teams to build workflows combining multiple tools in a single conversation
AWS Blocks is an open-source TypeScript framework that allows developers to build backend capabilities on AWS without learning infrastructure tools, with local testing and seamless deployment to production.
Amazon Redshift expands general availability of RG instances powered by AWS Graviton processors to three new regions: Africa (Cape Town), Asia Pacific (Bangkok), and Mexico (Central). These instances deliver up to 4.2X better price-performance and 30% lower cost per vCPU compared to other data warehouses.
AWS Sign-in supports resource-based policies and resource control policies for the AWS Management Console, allowing you to restrict console sign-in to expected networks. These policies can be applied organization-wide through AWS Organizations.
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore now offers Web Search, allowing developers to build agents with up-to-date web knowledge without integrating external services
AWS Transform for mainframe provides a connected, traceable reimagine experience from assessment through code generation, enabling automated modernization of z/OS COBOL and PL/I workloads in months instead of years.
Amazon Bedrock Guardrails now offers automated reasoning checks using formal verification techniques to validate AI model outputs with mathematical rigor, significantly reducing risks in regulated industries and enterprise applications
Amazon S3 Vectors increases the number of similarity search results per query to 10,000, a 100x increase from the previous limit, aiding applications with multi-stage retrieval pipelines.
AWS Transform offers model-to-model migration assessment for generative AI workloads, helping organizations move from third-party providers to Amazon Bedrock with an AI-powered agent that scans codebases and generates migration plans.
Amazon Bedrock Guardrails now offers the InvokeGuardrailChecks API, allowing users to apply individual safeguards at any point in agentic AI applications without creating guardrail resources. The API provides granular control over which safeguards to run at each step, returning severity and confidence scores for custom thresholds and actions.
AWS Security Agent now includes AI-powered threat modeling, automatically generating threat models from design documents or source code. Developers can integrate it into IDEs for early threat mitigation, while security teams can use it for pre-deployment assessments.
Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base, a fully managed retrieval-augmented generation service, is now generally available, allowing developers to build production-ready AI agents grounded in enterprise data without managing vector databases, data pipelines, or retrieval infrastructure
AWS Secrets Manager now provides a secret safety skill in the Agent Toolkit for AWS, allowing AI coding agents to securely retrieve and use secrets without exposing values in model context or logs, preserving developer workflows.
Oracle Database@AWS now supports Oracle Autonomous AI Database Serverless (ADB-S), a fully managed Oracle database service on Exadata infrastructure. ADB-S can be provisioned directly from the AWS Management Console, AWS CLI, or AWS APIs, supporting four workload types: AI Transaction Processing, AI Lakehouse, AI JSON Database, and Oracle APEX.
AWS Continuum discovers, prioritizes, validates, and remediates security risks at machine speed within user-defined guardrails. It integrates findings from existing tools and its own scans, prioritizes them using a context graph of the environment and business, and validates exploitability by building reproducible proof in an isolated sandbox. Confirmed exposures receive fast, reversible mitigations within guardrails, followed by durable fixes routed through the user's review and deployment process
AWS Glue Data Catalog adds business context and semantic search in preview, allowing users to enrich tables with glossary terms and metadata, and enabling AI agents to find data by meaning rather than inferred context.
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore now supports Bedrock Guardrails in policy, providing enterprises with deeper safety and security controls for scaling AI agents in production by evaluating agent actions and gateway calls in real-time.
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore now offers optimization capabilities that turn production traces into continuous agent improvements, identifying and fixing silent failures that affect users.
Amazon Quick introduces autonomous agents and multi-dataset analytics, enabling natural language task specification and analysis across multiple data sources for continuous workflow automation and secure data management.
AWS Outposts introduces bmn-cx3a instances featuring 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors and up to 800 Gbps bare-metal accelerated networking, designed for high-throughput workloads like real-time market data and telecom 5G core networks.
AWS DevOps Agent now supports custom SRE agents, bring-your-own sub-agents, and headless access via MCP and A2A protocols, allowing developers to invoke it from existing tools and coding assistants like Kiro and Claude.
AWS Partner Central offers lead enrichment and prospecting, enabling partners to assess purchase likelihood and program eligibility for leads
AWS Lambda Managed Instances enables automatic tagging of managed resources like EC2 instances and EBS volumes, simplifying cost tracking and compliance management
AWS introduces historical data retention for Cost Explorer accounts in billing groups, allowing these accounts to access past billing data at their original billable rates without additional steps.
Amazon FSx for Lustre Intelligent-Tiering delivers the lowest-cost, fully elastic Lustre file storage optimized for mixed hot and cold data workloads, now available in 13 additional regions, significantly reducing storage costs for less frequently accessed data.
Amazon ECS Express Mode enables developers to rapidly launch containerized applications, providing an AWS domain name, HTTPS support, and automatic scaling based on traffic patterns.
Amazon Route 53 Resolver DNS Firewall announces preview support for Palo Alto Networks Advanced DNS Security, allowing security administrators to enforce DNS threat protections directly within DNS Firewall rules without deploying separate firewalls.
Amazon CloudWatch now offers Log Analytics, unifying CloudWatch Logs Insights, Live Tail, and Contributor Insights in one console. Users can run multiple queries, use existing features, and access all tools from this default interface.
Amazon FSx for OpenZFS now enables on-demand replication of snapshots between opt-in Regions, simplifying disaster recovery and global data distribution
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Memory now allows attaching metadata directly from applications for long-term memory records, ensuring values pass through extraction unchanged without LLM inference.
AWS adds xAI's Grok 4.3 model to Amazon Bedrock, enhancing reasoning and agent-building capabilities
AWS Transform adds continuous modernization capability that autonomously detects, prioritizes, and remediates tech debt across enterprise software portfolios, supporting AI agent readiness assessments and security vulnerability detection
AWS Management Console Private Access now allows customers to access the AWS Console from VPCs without internet connectivity, enabling secure management of AWS infrastructure in air-gapped environments using AWS PrivateLink.
Amazon EC2 P6-B200 instances, accelerated by NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs, deliver up to 2x performance over P5en instances for AI training and inference
AWS Transform extends its block storage migration capabilities to Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP, enabling customers to migrate workloads directly to FSx for ONTAP and eliminating the need for intermediate storage platforms and separate migration tools.
Amazon S3 adds annotations, allowing up to 1GB of custom metadata in JSON, XML, or YAML format to be attached to objects, helping AI agents and analytics tools find the right data more effectively.
AWS Partner Central agents automate new partner onboarding from profile setup to compliance completion, guiding partners through all steps required to sell with AWS
AWS Marketplace Storefront enables partners to build and deploy branded solution catalogs on their websites or applications in hours, with automated billing and CRM integrations.
The Amazon Connect Customer Services Competency certifies service partners with proven expertise in transforming enterprise-wide customer experience on Amazon Connect
AWS Partners can now automate pricing within co-sell workflows using express private offers. Pre-configured pricing rules enable rapid private offers for customers, accelerating deal conversion in AWS-led sales.
AWS Marketplace has lowered the listing fee for professional services private offers from 2.5% to 0.5%, making it more cost-effective for consulting partners, systems integrators, managed services providers, and independent software vendors to transact their services through AWS Marketplace.
Amazon S3 Vectors cuts data processing charges for queries on vector indexes with over 10 million vectors by up to 80%, lowering costs for large-scale AI, RAG, and semantic search workloads
Amazon RDS for SQL Server introduces memory-optimized X2m database instances, offering up to 64 vCPUs and 4 TB of memory, reducing SQL Server licensing costs by over 50%.
AWS Partner Central now supports Business Value Realization (BVR), a new experience and funding model for partners driving customer adoption and outcomes after deploying strategic AWS services
AWS Partner Central accepts SOC 2 Type II audit reports or AWS Well-Architected Framework Reviews to complete Foundational Technical Review in minutes, providing AI-powered validation and immediate feedback to partners
AWS Marketplace introduces AI-assisted product listing in Partner Assistant chat, helping ISVs and Consulting Partners create high-quality listings using existing digital assets
Amazon CloudWatch now natively supports OpenTelemetry metrics via OTLP and allows querying with PromQL, offering per-GB pricing and 15 months of storage, enabling unified querying of application and AWS service metrics.
AWS Partner Central agents now evaluate every co-sell opportunity in real time, providing recommendations that drive AWS engagement and accelerate deal progression. The agent enriches opportunity details on behalf of the partner, eliminating the need for manual review.
Amazon RDS for MariaDB now supports the latest minor versions of MariaDB, providing security fixes, bug fixes, performance improvements, and new features. Users can utilize automatic minor version upgrades or RDS Managed Blue/Green Deployments for safer and simpler updates.
Amazon RDS for MySQL now supports new Extended Support minor version 5.7.44-RDS.20260521, fixing known security vulnerabilities and bugs. Extended Support allows running MySQL databases for up to three years beyond a major version's end of standard support date.
Amazon RDS for MariaDB now supports MariaDB 12.3 in the preview environment, allowing evaluation of the latest LTS release. Features include Oracle TO_DATE() function compatibility, SQL Standard IS JSON predicate, and basic XML data type.
Amazon GameLift Servers now offers free network bandwidth in and out of AWS for all instance types from generation 6 and later, including On-Demand and Spot, with no additional cost or commitment required.
Amazon CloudWatch Query Studio now generally available, enabling unified querying and visualization of metrics across multiple accounts and regions using PromQL or Metrics Insights
Amazon CloudWatch provides cross-account and cross-region metrics centralization, allowing automatic replication of metrics to a single destination account for unified monitoring and management.
AWS WAF now enables content owners to price, meter, and collect payments from AI bots and agents accessing their content and APIs, using machine-readable HTTP 402 responses for payment verification at the edge.
Amazon EC2 C7i instances, powered by custom 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors, are now available in the Israel (Tel Aviv) Region. They offer up to 15% better price-performance versus C6i instances, larger instance sizes up to 48xlarge, bare metal options, Intel AMX support, and up to 128 EBS volumes.
Amazon EC2 introduces C8i instances in the Europe (Stockholm) region, powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors, delivering up to 2.5x more memory bandwidth and 20% higher performance than C7i instances
Amazon EC2 I7i instances feature 5th Gen Intel Xeon Processors, offering up to 23% better compute performance and optimized storage for I/O-intensive workloads
Amazon SageMaker AI supports serverless fine-tuning for the NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano model, allowing users to customize the model with their proprietary data without managing infrastructure.
Amazon Lightsail expands to Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), South America (São Paulo), and Europe (Spain), enabling lower latency and better performance for applications in these regions while meeting local data residency requirements
AWS Lake Formation now enables reading and writing underlying data files in Amazon S3 for tables registered in the AWS Glue Data Catalog, providing a single set of permissions for both SQL queries and direct file access using existing Lake Formation table grants.
Amazon MWAA Serverless can now emit workflow and task state change events to Amazon EventBridge, enabling event-driven automation for Apache Airflow workflows
AWS Elastic Beanstalk now allows users to view CloudWatch Logs directly within the environment's Logs tab, eliminating the need to navigate to the CloudWatch console.
Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition now supports PostgreSQL major version 18, bringing performance improvements and new extension pg_roaringbitmap
Amazon CloudWatch Application Signals adds service health ranking to the application map and new infrastructure, logs, and traces tabs on the service overview page, enabling operators to quickly identify and investigate degraded services.
Amazon EKS extends support for local clusters on AWS Outposts to first and second-generation racks running Amazon EC2 instances booted from EC2 instance store, enhancing data residency and resilience against temporary network disconnects
Amazon Quick integrates with Snowflake Cortex AI, enabling natural language queries and automated multi-step workflows. It processes both structured data and unstructured documents simultaneously.
Amazon EC2 High Memory U7i-8TB instances feature 4th-gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors and 8 TiB of DDR5 memory, ideal for mission-critical in-memory databases like SAP HANA, Oracle, and SQL Server.
Amazon EC2 Capacity Blocks for ML is now available in AWS GovCloud (US) regions, allowing government and regulated-industry customers to reserve GPU capacity for machine learning workloads.
Amazon EC2 M9g and M9gd instances are now generally available, powered by AWS Graviton5 processors, delivering up to 25% better compute performance compared to previous generations.
Amazon VPC Flow Logs now supports EC2 resource tags and next-hop interface metadata, simplifying network monitoring and troubleshooting
Amazon Bedrock now offers the Gemma 4 family from Google DeepMind, enabling generative AI applications across reasoning, multimodal understanding, and software engineering workflows.
Amazon ECS Managed Daemons now allow configuration of pidMode and ipcMode settings, enabling daemon processes to access instance-wide resources and shared namespaces with other containers
Amazon EC2 future-dated Capacity Reservations now allow cancellation of reservations, with potential charges displayed for review before proceeding.
Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports MCP Apps, enabling users to investigate incidents using logs, traces, and metrics within compatible agentic IDEs like Claude Desktop and VS Code, with interactive visualizations for review.
Amazon Bedrock now offers OpenAI's GPT-5.4 and GPT-5.5 models in the US East (N. Virginia) Region, enabling advanced generative AI applications for coding, reasoning, and long-running tasks.
AWS Workload Credentials Provider automates deployment of ACM certificates and local caching of Secrets Manager secrets across AWS and non-AWS workloads, eliminating the need for custom automation and preventing expiry-related failures.
Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus now supports out-of-order sample ingestion and workspace-level rule query offset, reducing data loss and improving alert accuracy for distributed workloads
Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus now supports ingestion, storage, and querying of Prometheus native histograms, enabling high-resolution metric distributions with greater precision and lower cardinality than classic histograms. Only populated buckets with actual observations are metered.
Amazon EC2 introduces metal-48xl and metal-96xl sizes for M8in, M8ib, M8idn, M8idb, R8in, R8ib, R8idn, and R8idb instances, powered by 6th generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors and AWS Nitro cards, delivering up to 43% better compute performance per vCPU and high network/EBS bandwidth
AWS FinOps Agent answers cost questions, surfaces optimization opportunities, automatically investigates cost anomalies, and runs recurring FinOps workflows. Available in preview at no additional charge.
Amazon S3 Access Grants maps identities from directories like Microsoft Entra ID or AWS IAM principals to datasets in S3, enabling scalable data permission management.
Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio Notebooks now support Amazon EMR Serverless, allowing data engineers and analysts to choose their Spark runtime for interactive analytics and data engineering workloads.
Amazon FSx for OpenZFS Intelligent-Tiering is designed for general-purpose file workloads, offering up to 85% cost savings compared to FSx SSD storage class
AWS now supports updates to data table configurations for AWS Cost and Usage Report 2.0 via the AWS Management Console and SDK/CLI, allowing customers to modify existing exports without deletion and recreation.
Amazon EC2 introduces P6-B200 instances accelerated by NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs, now available in AWS GovCloud (US-East), offering up to 2x performance over P5en instances for AI training and inference.
Amazon DocumentDB supports engine minor version 5.0.1, delivering new aggregation operators and enhanced monitoring capabilities
Amazon MSK Express Brokers now supports automatic topic creation with Kafka Streams, eliminating the need to manually pre-create or manage topics for stateful operations
AWS Compute Optimizer identifies idle resources for Amazon DynamoDB provisioned tables, ElastiCache, MemoryDB, DocumentDB, WorkSpaces, and SageMaker endpoints
AWS Cost Explorer now includes 'Analyze with Amazon Q', allowing users to get detailed cost analysis for any configured report with a single click, covering cost trends, top drivers, and anomalies.
Amazon EMR Serverless now supports interactive sessions with Spark Connect, enabling development and execution of Apache Spark applications from managed notebooks in SageMaker Unified Studio and other notebook environments or IDEs, with monitoring, debugging, and cost visibility for individual sessions
AWS Backup now offers fully-managed, policy-based data protection and recovery for Amazon EKS clusters in the AWS European Sovereign Cloud (Germany) Region, including automated scheduling, retention management, immutable vaults, and cross-Region and cross-account copies.
Anthropic has requested AWS to revoke access to Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5 for all users to comply with US Government export control directives. All other models remain unaffected.
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