AWS

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Introduces a self‑service capability to increase or decrease Amazon Cognito provisioned API rate limits on demand via console or new API operations

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Adds one‑click integration from Hugging Face to SageMaker Studio, allowing immediate model customization or deployment with a pre‑loaded workflow.

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Adds support for VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0 and 9.1 on Amazon EVS

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ACM now provides a managed ACME server endpoint for automated issuance of public TLS certificates (45‑day validity) via any ACMEv2 client.

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Introduces Service Events for CloudWatch Application Signals, automatically capturing exception, latency, and deployment events without code changes.

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AWS CodePipeline is now available in the Asia Pacific (New Zealand) ap‑southeast‑6 region.

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Added managed external secrets support for Paddle API Keys and GitLab access tokens in AWS Secrets Manager.

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Added Terraform module (terraform-aws-sagemaker-unified-studio) for provisioning SageMaker Unified Studio domains via infrastructure-as-code pipelines

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X8i instances (custom Intel Xeon 6) are now available in AP Seoul, AP Malaysia, and AP Tokyo regions

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Added support for AMD SEV‑SNP on EC2 Dedicated Hosts, enabling confidential‑computing workloads on dedicated physical servers.

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Adds AMI versioning to HyperPod, letting admins view exact AMI versions per node and roll back via UpdateClusterSoftware API

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Adds support for 8 new AWS resource types across services like API Gateway, EC2, and S3 Vectors.

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Increased default runtime quota limits for AgentCore, allowing up to 5,000 concurrent sessions in US East/West regions and 2,500 in other regions

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CloudWatch now lets you create alarms directly from log query results, removing the need for intermediate metric filters or custom metrics.

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ECS Service Connect now routes traffic to same‑AZ endpoints first, cutting cross‑AZ data transfer and latency.

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Adds real-time deployment observability in the Amazon ECS console with a live timeline, health monitoring, and automatic refresh.

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Introduces Assurance Assistant in AWS Artifact, an AI‑driven tool that generates citation‑backed answers to security and compliance queries.

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Partners can now link existing AWS Marketplace solutions and product listings to co‑sell opportunities in Partner Central.

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Added configurable deployment circuit breaker settings for ECS services, allowing custom failure thresholds by count or percentage.

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Added cross‑region automated backup replication for Amazon RDS in four new AWS regions, expanding geographic disaster‑recovery options

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Added Amazon Bedrock AgentCore support in four new AWS regions: AP Bangkok, AP Malaysia, EU Milan, and EU Spain.

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Added three Runtime Monitoring detections (Persistence, PrivilegeEscalation, DefenseEvasion) that trigger on sensitive file modifications in EC2, EKS, and ECS workloads.

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Introduces managed A/B testing and multivariate experiment capabilities directly in AWS AppConfig.

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Express Mode now accepts custom ECS task definitions, enabling reuse of existing configurations and advanced task-level settings.

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Adds ability to rollback an EKS cluster to the previous Kubernetes minor version within 7 days of an upgrade.

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Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus is now FedRAMP High and DoD CC SRG Impact Level 4/5 authorized in AWS GovCloud (US), enabling use in sensitive federal and public sector workloads.

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AWS Security Agent is now available in Mumbai, Singapore, and São Paulo regions

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RDS for Db2 now supports joining self‑managed Microsoft AD domains (on‑prem, AWS, or other clouds) using Kerberos for single sign‑on.

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Introduces a new log‑analytics‑optimized engine for OpenSearch (v3.5+) delivering up to 4× price‑performance and up to 70% lower storage.

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Added rule‑based redaction for agent screen recordings, allowing specified URLs or applications to be automatically removed.

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CloudWatch Logs now automatically enriches log events with AWS resource tags at ingestion time

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CloudFormation now performs automatic pre‑deployment validation on CreateStack and UpdateStack operations, catching errors before resources are provisioned

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Adds CloudFormation and CDK "express" mode that completes stack operations as soon as resources are configured, bypassing long stabilization checks.

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Added dynamic connection scaling for IAM database authentication, letting auth request rates grow with instance resources

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Introduces managed in‑place Slurm major version upgrades for existing PCS clusters, allowing jumps up to three versions ahead.

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Added dual‑stack mode enabling Neptune clusters to accept IPv4, IPv6, or both connections

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Amazon ElastiCache adds T4g node types in Africa (Cape Town), APJ (Jakarta, Osaka), and AWS GovCloud (US‑East, US‑West) regions.

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Increases per‑user security profile limit from 2 to 7, enabling agents to have distinct permission sets for multiple business lines.

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Added SendRcsMessage API enabling rich media (cards, carousels, images, videos) and interactive suggestion buttons for RCS in all 22 supported countries.

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Added microsecond‑accurate time on 26 additional EC2 instance types across all commercial regions via Amazon Time Sync Service.

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Announces general availability of Amazon WorkSpaces for AI agents, letting agents securely access and operate legacy desktop applications without code changes.

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Introduce "reservations‑then‑balanced" AZ distribution strategy for EC2 Auto Scaling groups

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Introduces Capability Insights, an open‑source, self‑hosted dashboard for viewing AWS regional capabilities within your own VPC.

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Added container attribute‑based firewall rules for Amazon EKS and Amazon ECS, allowing policies based on namespace, cluster name, labels, and container instance attributes.

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Introduces container image caching for SageMaker Inference, pre‑pulling large model images to halve scale‑out startup latency.

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Introduces the AI Security Best Practices standard in AWS Security Hub CSPM with 31 automated controls for AI workloads.

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IAM Identity Center now lets customer‑managed applications act as trusted token issuers to discover user accounts/roles and retrieve temporary credentials programmatically.

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Claude Sonnet 5 is now available on AWS through Amazon Bedrock and Claude Platform, offering unified access with AWS billing and authentication.

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Adds Dynamic Instrumentation to CloudWatch Application Signals, enabling live capture of variables, arguments, return values, and stack traces without restarting or redeploying applications.

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Added serverless model customization (SFT, DPO, RFT) for Gemma 4 E4B and 31B models

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Announces GA of EC2 C9g and C9gd compute‑optimized instances powered by 5th‑gen Graviton5 processors

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AWS launches Interconnect - last mile, a fully managed service for linking branch offices, data centers, and remote sites to AWS with a few clicks.

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Claude Opus 4.8 is now offered on AWS GovCloud (US) through Amazon Bedrock.

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Added OpenAI GPT-5.4 (272K context, 1.2x credit multiplier) to Kiro in AWS GovCloud US-West for complex reasoning, coding, and multi-step agentic workflows.

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Adds DDoS Protection client SDKs for C# and Unity, offering token‑based authentication and per‑player traffic limits to safeguard multiplayer sessions.

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CloudWatch pipelines now can process and enrich OpenTelemetry metrics during ingestion.

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Multiple AWS services (e.g., Bedrock Agents Classic, Cognito Sync, SageMaker AI features) are moving to maintenance mode and will be inaccessible to new customers after July‑August 2026.

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Added support for writing SQL query results to intermediate tables within a collaboration

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Added GA support for AWS WAF protection on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Gateway.

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MWAA Serverless now validates and accepts subnets shared via AWS RAM, enabling shared VPC usage across accounts

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S3 server access logs can now be delivered to CloudWatch Logs with KMS encryption, cross‑account/region aggregation, and alarm support.

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Amazon EC2 R8g (Graviton4) instances are now available in five new regions (Thailand, New Zealand, Cape Town, Milan, Calgary)

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Compute‑optimized C7a instances (4th Gen AMD EPYC) are now available in the Asia Pacific (Singapore) region.

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Amazon EC2 M8a general‑purpose instances are now available in the Asia Pacific (Mumbai) region.

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Added FedRAMP High and DoD CC SRG IL‑4/5 approved OpenAI GPT, OpenAI GPT OSS, and NVIDIA Nemotron models to Amazon Bedrock in GovCloud (US).

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Adds two VisionHeight managed rule groups—Zero-Day Threat Protection and Tor/Scanner Protection—to AWS Network Firewall.

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Amazon EC2 C8in instances are now available in the US East (Ohio) and Europe (Ireland) regions

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Kiro now authorized for FedRAMP High and DoD CC SRG Impact Levels 4‑5 in AWS GovCloud (US) regions

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Introduced All Upfront and Partial Upfront payment options for 1‑year and 3‑year Redshift Reserved Instances (RG).

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Technical support cases for AWS GovCloud (US) are now automatically routed to US‑based, US‑citizen engineers without requiring opt‑in

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AWS Backup now copies S3 backups up to 8× faster for large, low‑change buckets using enhanced change tracking

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Added support for SQL Server 2019 CU32+GDR (KB5090407) and SQL Server 2022 CU25 (KB5081477) on Amazon RDS Custom.

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Add support for the latest GDR updates across SQL Server 2016‑2022 on Amazon RDS

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Added Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion availability in the Europe (Paris) region (eu-west-3).

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Adds live updates to EMR Serverless application settings (max capacity, custom images) without stopping the app.

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Introduces the AWS IoT Device SDK for Swift, now generally available for native development on Apple platforms and Linux.

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Adds support for sharing Route 53 Global Resolver DNS views across AWS accounts using AWS RAM.

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Adds AWS CloudFormation support via a new AWS::Neptune::GlobalCluster resource to provision and manage Neptune global databases as code.

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Added support for tagging CloudWatch dashboards via new Tags parameter in PutDashboard and TagResource/UntagResource/ListTagsForResource APIs.

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Add Amazon EC2 High Memory U7in-24TB (u7in-24tb.224xlarge) instances in the Asia Pacific (Seoul) region

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Introduces managed syslog ingestion for CloudWatch Logs, enabling firewalls, routers, switches, and Linux servers to send syslog over TCP, TLS, or UDP to a VPC endpoint without agents.

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Introduces preview AI‑powered investigations in GuardDuty to auto‑analyze findings and account activity

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Added support for EC2 G6e instances on SageMaker notebook instances, offering up to 8 NVIDIA L40 GPUs with 48 GB GPU memory each.

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Added support for Valkey 9.1 in Amazon ElastiCache node‑based clusters

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Introduced cross‑account access for Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Memory, allowing memory resources and agents to span multiple AWS accounts.

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Introduces 16 GiB of encrypted, automatically cleaned‑up ephemeral storage per workflow task, mountable at /tmp.

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Cognito user pools now support customer‑managed AWS KMS keys for at‑rest encryption

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Introduces two new policy refinement workflows (iterative improvement and ambiguity reduction) for Automated Reasoning checks in Amazon Bedrock Guardrails.

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Introduces CloudWatch OpenTelemetry Container Insights for Amazon EKS, collecting infrastructure metrics at 30‑second intervals via cAdvisor, Kube‑State‑Metrics, and NVIDIA DCGM.

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Introduces Claude Tag beta for Slack, allowing teams to tag @Claude in channels and delegate tasks

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Introduces AI‑assisted Migration Assistant to simplify moving self‑managed Solr, Elasticsearch, or OpenSearch deployments to OpenSearch Serverless or Managed Clusters

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Added support for Amazon EC2 G7e instances in SageMaker Studio notebooks, offering up to 8 RTX PRO 6000 GPUs, 96 GB GPU memory, and up to 192 vCPUs.

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Adds support for Nextflow profiles, letting users activate predefined execution settings at run time.

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Introduces Lambda MicroVMs, a serverless primitive that gives each user or job a dedicated VM‑level isolated environment with near‑instant launch and up to 8 hour stateful resume.

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Adds support for all AWS commercial regions as migration targets in AWS Transform for migrations

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Default stateful action for new firewall policies changed to "Application drop established (server‑directed only)".

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Introduces the Agentic CX Designer (NLX) in preview, a no‑code canvas for building AI‑powered voice and digital self‑service experiences.

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Adds Best Fit Progressive Ordered (BFPO) and Spot Capacity Optimized Prioritized (SCOP) allocation strategies for AWS Batch compute environments.

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IAM Identity Center now has independent quotas for AWS accounts and applications (default 7,000 each).

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Introduces AI Agent Skills for Amazon MSK, offering AI coding assistants expert, up‑to‑date guidance on troubleshooting, sizing, configuration, monitoring, and migration tasks.