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      <title>Amazon SNS now supports message payloads up to 1 MiB</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2026 15:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>AWS RTB Fabric now supports configurable Availability Zone affinity</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2026 15:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>AWS RTB Fabric now allows configuration of responder gateway Availability Zone affinity, enabling client routing policies to prioritize the requester&apos;s zone or utilize all zones spanned by the gateway.</description>
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      <title>AWS Resilience Hub adds three new capabilities</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2026 16:49:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>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.</description>
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      <title>Amazon ECS Express Mode now supports AWS Graviton (ARM64) workloads</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2026 17:27:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>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.</description>
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      <title>AWS Continuum now supports credential testing and accessible domain suggestions</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2026 18:34:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>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</description>
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      <title>AWS HealthOmics now supports IAM session policies</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2026 18:32:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>AWS HealthOmics now supports IAM session policies, allowing you to dynamically restrict permissions for individual runs without creating and managing multiple IAM roles.</description>
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      <title>AWS Transfer Family now supports source IP preservation for SFTP servers behind a Network Load Balancer (NLB)</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2026 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>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.</description>
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      <title>Amazon SES now supports tenant-level deliverability insights</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2026 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Amazon SES&apos;s Virtual Deliverability Manager now offers tenant-level deliverability insights, enabling monitoring of metrics for each tenant</description>
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      <title>Amazon S3 Express One Zone is now available in 7 additional AWS Regions</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2026 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>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</description>
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      <title>AWS Elastic Beanstalk introduces Cluster Mode to run multiple applications on shared infrastructure</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2026 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>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.</description>
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      <title>Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) is now generally available in 11 additional Regions</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2026 16:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>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.</description>
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      <title>Amazon ECS deployment observability for Amazon ECS Managed Daemons now available in AWS Management Console</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2026 22:01:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>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</description>
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      <title>Amazon SageMaker AI now supports serverless model customization for NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2026 22:29:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>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.</description>
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      <title>Amazon Corretto 27 is now generally available</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2026 00:00:31 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>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.</description>
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      <title>Amazon Quick now generates individual sheets and builds analyses from an image</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2026 02:37:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Amazon Quick expands Generate Analysis with new capabilities to create dashboards faster using natural language or images</description>
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      <title>AWS Builder Center now available as mobile app on iOS and Android</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2026 07:09:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>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</description>
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      <title>Amazon Connect Customer now enables creating, managing, and searching custom metrics via APIs</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2026 16:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Amazon Connect Customer introduces new APIs for consistent, programmatic management of custom metrics, eliminating manual drift and enabling automatic dashboard updates</description>
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      <title>Amazon ECS extends Amazon S3 Files support to the Amazon EC2 compute type</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2026 16:25:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>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.</description>
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      <title>AWS Elemental MediaTailor Monetization Functions adds ad response hooks</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2026 16:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>AWS Elemental MediaTailor now supports two additional lifecycle hooks for monetization functions, enhancing flexibility in ad personalization and insertion.</description>
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      <title>Amazon Connect Customer can now import evaluation form PDFs using AI</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2026 17:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>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.</description>
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      <title>Amazon Connect Customer custom metrics now supports tag-based access control</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2026 17:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>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.</description>
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      <title>Amazon WorkSpaces adds support for NVIDIA Blackwell GPU instances</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2026 17:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>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</description>
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      <title>AWS launches new experience to help builders get started and ship faster</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2026 17:45:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>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.</description>
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      <title>AWS Step Functions adds new AWS service integrations automatically, starting with AWS Lambda MicroVMs</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2026 18:54:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>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.</description>
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      <title>Monitor cost anomalies directly in Billing and Cost Management Dashboards with the new Detected Anomalies widget</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2026 22:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>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</description>
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      <title>AWS STS simplifies session token size limits and adds session token size monitoring</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2026 22:42:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>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.</description>
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      <title>Amazon Connect Customer now enables agents to bid on preferred shifts</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2026 16:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>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.</description>
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      <title>Analyze your CloudTrail events using natural language in Amazon Q Console</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2026 16:54:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>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.</description>
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      <title>Amazon SageMaker AI now supports instance preference lists for training and processing jobs</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2026 18:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>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.</description>
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      <title>AWS Billing Conductor now supports custom rates and usage tier pricing configurations</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2026 18:58:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>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.</description>
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