AWS Glue zero-ETL integrations now available in Asia Pacific (Mumbai), simplifying data pipelines, reducing latency, and accelerating analytics/ML insights. Zero-ETL offers managed integrations for common ingestion/replication use cases, eliminating the need for complex ETL pipelines.

AWS adds AWS Local Zones to the AWS Management Console, providing a unified experience across AWS global infrastructure. Customers can now easily navigate to and manage resources in AWS Local Zones.

Amazon Elastic VMware Service now supports up to 32 ESXi hosts, doubling the previous limit. This provides more flexibility in configuring VMware Cloud Foundation domains and clusters. Users can scale up to 32 hosts, reducing operational overhead.

AWS SAM CLI now supports AWS CloudFormation Language Extensions, allowing you to reduce duplication in your infrastructure as code templates while retaining the local development workflow. This accelerates serverless development by letting you define resources once and test them locally…

Amazon CloudWatch Logs now supports retrieving up to 100,000 results using the Logs Insights query language. Customers can view a larger set of results and use existing features such as patterns, visualization, and export on the full 100,000 result set.

Amazon EMR Serverless is now available in 6 more AWS regions, enabling petabyte-scale data analytics without cluster management. It offers automatic scaling, fast launch, customizable workers, and supports batch, interactive, and streaming workloads.

Amazon Connect Cases now supports editing and deleting related items, and deleting cases directly from the agent workspace without administrator help. Agents can update comments, unlink contacts, or delete cases opened in error. Amazon Connect Cases is available in various AWS regions.…

Amazon Managed Grafana now supports in-place upgrade from Grafana 10.4 to 12.4, enabling faster rendering, point-and-click exploration, and enhanced log analysis. The upgrade is available in all AWS regions where Amazon Managed Grafana is generally available.

Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL announces new minor versions with security and bug fixes. Extended Support provides up to 3 more years of critical updates. Upgrade databases during maintenance windows or use Upgrade Rollout Policy and Blue/Green deployments to minimize downtime.

Amazon CloudFront now supports OCSP revocation checking for viewer mTLS, enabling real-time validation of client certificate revocation status. This feature helps customers in regulated industries and zero-trust architectures verify client certificates before accepting connections,…

Amazon announces the general availability of Amazon EC2 M3 Ultra Mac instances, powered by the latest Mac Studio hardware, enabling Apple developers to migrate their demanding build and test workloads onto AWS. These instances offer improved performance and resources for building and…

Amazon CloudFront now supports passthrough mode for viewer mutual TLS authentication, allowing customers to forward client certificates to their origin for validation without CloudFront performing certificate verification. This enables existing mTLS implementations at origins to use…

Customers struggle to optimize prompts and evaluate responses when migrating to new models or improving performance. Amazon Bedrock introduces Advanced Prompt Optimization, a tool to optimize prompts across multiple models, compare original and optimized prompts, and get evaluation…

Amazon Aurora DSQL introduces change data capture (CDC) to stream real-time database changes to Amazon Kinesis Data Streams, enabling event-driven apps, real-time analytics, and data synchronization across systems. CDC captures insert, update, and delete events with no impact on database…

AWS announces the general availability of the agent builder toolkit Kiro power for AWS Transform, enabling partners and customers to build tailored agents for their modernization needs and integrate them seamlessly with AWS Transform's agentic AI capabilities.

AWS announces the availability of AWS Transform agents through Kiro power, agent plugins, and the AWS Transform MCP server, allowing developers to access transformation capabilities from their preferred development environment. This launch provides flexibility and depth of expertise for…

Amazon SageMaker AI now supports serverless model customization for Qwen3.6 27B parameter model using supervised and reinforcement fine-tuning. This enables tailoring foundation models with proprietary data to improve accuracy, align outputs, and enhance performance on new tasks.

AWS CloudFormation now supports Fn::GetStackOutput, enabling cross-account and cross-Region references in templates and CDK apps, simplifying multi-account infrastructure management and reducing deployment issues.

Amazon's Application Recovery Controller (ARC) Region Switch automates the failover of multi-Region applications, including event-driven architectures using Lambda functions. The Lambda event source mapping execution block enables or disables event source mappings during failover,…

Amazon SageMaker Data Agent extends AI-powered capabilities to streamline analytics workflows across SageMaker notebooks and Query Editor, generating tailored code from natural language prompts and providing intelligent debugging. Available in all commercial AWS Regions with SageMaker…

Amazon FSx for OpenZFS now allows creating Multi-AZ file systems in shared VPCs, enabling decentralized network and storage administration within AWS organizations.

Amazon SageMaker Feature Store now supports SageMaker Python SDK v3, enabling fine-grained access control and optimized offline storage through Lake Formation and Apache Iceberg integration. Data scientists can manage feature groups with streamlined workflows and reduced boilerplate.

Amazon EventBridge Scheduler expands its AWS SDK integrations, allowing scheduling of 619 new API actions across 13 additional services, including scaling Lambda managed instances. This serverless scheduler enables scheduling of events and tasks across 270+ AWS services without…

Amazon EKS now supports Amazon Application Recovery Controller (ARC) zonal shift and zonal autoshift with Karpenter for compute provisioning. ARC helps manage application recovery across AWS Regions and Availability Zones. Zonal shift and autoshift enable automated traffic redirection and…

Amazon Redshift announces RG instances, a new generation of provisioned cluster nodes powered by AWS Graviton processors, delivering up to 2.4x faster performance and 30% lower price per vCPU for data warehouse and data lake workloads. RG instances include Redshift's custom-built…

Amazon EC2 P6-B200 instances with 8 NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs and 5th Gen Intel Xeon processors are now available on SageMaker Studio in AWS US East (N. Virginia), offering up to 2x better performance for AI training compared to P5en instances.

Amazon Aurora DSQL is now available in more regions, offering serverless, distributed SQL database with unlimited scalability, high availability, and zero infrastructure management. It provides the fastest distributed SQL reads and writes. Aurora DSQL is available in 19 AWS Regions…

Amazon EC2 P4de instances with 8 NVIDIA A100 GPUs and 640GB of GPU memory are now available in Asia Pacific and Europe, offering up to 60% better ML training performance and 20% lower cost compared to P4d instances.

Amazon EC2 G6 instances now available in Middle East and Asia Pacific on SageMaker Studio, offering 2x better deep learning inference performance than G4dn instances. Customers can use G6 for interactive model testing, training, and inference workloads in AI, NLP, computer vision, and…

Amazon EC2 G6e instances now available in Middle East, Asia Pacific, and Europe for SageMaker Studio notebooks. Powered by NVIDIA L40s GPUs and AMD EPYC CPUs, offering up to 2.5x better performance than G5 instances. Suitable for interactive model testing, training, and deploying large…

AWS HealthOmics now supports caching completed task outputs of cancelled runs, enabling reuse and avoiding recomputation. Caching helps researchers debug and develop workflows efficiently by storing intermediate files and completed tasks. This saves costs and accelerates subsequent runs.

AWS Client VPN now supports Linux desktop client with Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. The VPN client is available for free and supports MacOS, Windows, and Ubuntu-Linux. It also supports ARM64 for MacOS and Windows. This client version is available in all regions where AWS Client VPN is generally…

AWS Service Catalog now available in Asia Pacific (New Zealand) and Canada West (Calgary). It enables customers to create, govern, and distribute approved Infrastructure as Code products for deployment on AWS. Organizations can apply launch and template constraints, manage product…

Amazon Route 53 Global Resolver now allows adding/removing AWS Regions for anycast DNS resolution, providing flexible control over DNS query resolution. This enables expanding coverage and adjusting regional deployment to meet compliance requirements. Global Resolver offers anycast DNS…

Amazon EC2 G6 instances with NVIDIA L4 GPUs now available in AWS European Sovereign Cloud (Germany) for graphics-intensive and machine learning use cases. Customers can purchase G6 instances in various regions and use them for natural language processing, video/image analysis, and more.

Amazon EC2 X8i instances now available in Europe (Ireland) and Asia Pacific (Mumbai), offering up to 43% higher performance, 1.5x more memory capacity, and 3.3x more memory bandwidth than previous X2i instances. Designed for memory-intensive workloads like SAP HANA, databases, and AI, X8i…

AWS Elemental MediaTailor now supports monetization functions, allowing customers to customize ad decision server requests and manage session data during ad-personalized playback, eliminating the need for middleware. Monetization functions enable various use cases, including identity…

Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio introduces new admin features for identity configuration and user management, allowing flexible collaboration across IAM and Identity Center domains.

AWS announces availability notifications for AWS services and features in AWS Builder Center, a new subscription-based system that alerts builders when new capabilities become available in their target regions. This helps accelerate infrastructure planning and deployment decisions by…

India customers can now use UPI (Unified Payments Interface) Scan and Pay to sign up for AWS or make payments. UPI is a popular payment method in India that facilitates instant bank-to-bank transfers. The new Scan and Pay experience simplifies payments by allowing customers to scan a QR…

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore announces autonomous API access and payment for AI agents, built with Coinbase and Stripe. Developers can connect wallets, set spending limits, and observe transactions without bespoke integrations. AgentCore Payments is available in preview regions, with Coinbase…

AWS Site-to-Site VPN now supports modifying tunnel bandwidth without deleting and recreating the connection, preserving IP addresses and configuration. This feature is available in multiple AWS Regions.

Amazon EC2 P6-B300 instances are now available in the US East (N. Virginia) Region, offering 8xNVIDIA Blackwell Ultra GPUs, 2.1 TB high bandwidth GPU memory, 6.4 Tbps EFA networking, 300 Gbps dedicated ENA throughput, and 4 TB of system memory. These instances deliver 2x networking…

AWS Marketplace announces Agreements API for programmatic procurement and management of AWS products. Enables estimates, offers, charges, entitlements, and agreements within existing tools. Integrates with Discovery API for end-to-end procurement. Available in US East (N. Virginia)…

Amazon Neptune now offers 1-click connect to quickly access Neptune Database and Analytics, reducing setup time and complexity for developers, analysts, and new users.

AWS Elemental MediaTailor enhances streaming ad personalization with trickplay support in HLS/DASH and compact DASH manifests, eliminating the need for custom transcoding. This improves viewer experience and manifest delivery efficiency.

AWS Elemental MediaTailor now automatically authenticates server-to-server connections with Google ad platforms, providing seamless integration and secure ad requests for customers. This feature is available in all AWS Regions with no additional cost.

AWS Serverless Application Model (AWS SAM) now supports WebSocket APIs for Amazon API Gateway, enabling you to define complete WebSocket APIs with minimal configuration in your SAM template. This new feature provides parity with API Gateway WebSocket APIs, including IAM and Lambda…

AWS Serverless Application Model Command Line Interface (SAM CLI) now supports BuildKit for faster, more efficient container image builds for Lambda functions. SAM CLI enables building, testing, and packaging serverless apps before deployment, and BuildKit adds multi-stage builds,…

Amazon Quick integrates with New Relic's AI agents, enabling on-call engineers to investigate incidents, generate root cause analysis, and create tasks without leaving their workspace. The integration allows users to invoke New Relic's AI agents directly from Quick, accessing insights,…