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🔁 IAM Identity Center can now be replicated to opt-in AWS Regions and between Regions inside AWS GovCloud (US) and AWS China, extending prior multi-Region coverage beyond enabled-by-default commercial Regions. When enabled, the service automatically replicates identities, entitlements, and related data from a primary Region to additional Regions, allowing users to retain access during primary Region disruptions. Multi-Region support works with external identity providers or the IAM Identity Center directory and requires a multi-Region customer managed KMS key (CMK); new instances can enable the feature with one click, while existing instances must create and configure a CMK. Standard AWS KMS charges apply; IAM Identity Center itself has no extra fee.

🔒 AWS Secrets Manager now integrates with the AWS Recommended Actions framework to display contextual, actionable suggestions directly in the Secrets Manager console. Users can view tailored recommendations beside individual secrets to improve security posture and follow best practices without leaving the console. Examples include enabling rotation, switching to customer-managed keys for encryption, and addressing configuration improvements. This capability is available in all AWS Regions where Secrets Manager is offered, at no additional cost.

🔔 Amazon S3 Tables now support up to 100 table buckets per AWS Region in an AWS account, increased from 10, allowing up to 1 million tables per Region. The higher default quota applies to all accounts at no additional cost and is available in all Regions where S3 Tables are offered. With more buckets you can separate datasets, workloads, or teams and apply bucket-level settings such as encryption, access policies, and replication. If you need more than the default, request a quota increase through AWS Support.

🖥️ Amazon WorkSpaces Core Managed Instances now support Graphics G7 instances powered by NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs and Intel Xeon 6 processors. G7 offers up to 2.1X better performance than G6 for graphics-intensive workloads and includes 32 GB of GDDR7 per GPU with 2.67X faster memory bandwidth. Six sizes are available (1–8 GPUs, 8–192 vCPUs, 32–768 GB RAM) with Linux and Windows support and BYOL.

🛈 AWS announces system-managed materialized views for Apache Iceberg that lock write access to view data and definitions to AWS Glue. These views let you precompute expensive queries and store results as standard Iceberg tables in Amazon S3 while preventing other writers from altering the computed outcome. You define the view with SQL and an optional refresh schedule; AWS Glue computes and maintains the results in the Glue Data Catalog. The feature is available in all supported regions, providing governed, consistent datasets readable by Iceberg-compatible engines.

🔔 AWS announces system-managed materialized views for Apache Iceberg in AWS Glue. These views precompute queries and store results as standard Iceberg tables in Amazon S3 while preventing any writer other than AWS Glue from modifying the data or view definition. You define the view with SQL and an optional refresh schedule; AWS Glue computes, stores, and maintains the result so any Iceberg-compatible engine can read it reliably. The feature is available in regions that support Iceberg materialized views.

🛠️ The AWS Command Line Interface now includes two new Agent Toolkit commands to simplify skill maintenance. Customers can run aws agent-toolkit check-skill-updates to compare installed skills with registry versions and aws agent-toolkit update-skill --all to update all outdated skills at once. These options reduce manual per-skill checks and streamline keeping agent skills current across domains like storage, networking, and analytics. Ensure you have AWS CLI v2.37.0+ and note availability of the AWS MCP Server in US East (N. Virginia) and Europe (Frankfurt).

🔎 Amazon S3 Vectors now supports metadata pre-filtering to evaluate filters before similarity search, returning up to 5x more matching vectors when filters are selective. It also introduces a $startsWith prefix-match operator for filtering on paths and URLs. New indexes in vector buckets enable pre-filtering by default; existing indexes can be updated with the UpdateIndexMode API. The feature is available at no extra cost across commercial and China AWS Regions and will be deployed in the coming days.

🔔 Amazon Managed Grafana now supports creating new workspaces with Grafana version 13.2, bringing features from Grafana 13.0–13.2 such as Git Sync, dynamic dashboards, and PromQL support in the Amazon CloudWatch plugin. Git Sync enables treating dashboards as code by linking a workspace to a Git repository for version control. Dynamic dashboards allow responsive layouts driven by data and variables. The CloudWatch data source plugin now accepts PromQL queries for metrics ingested via OTLP. Grafana 13.2 is available in all AWS regions where the service is generally available.

🚀 Amazon Web Services now supports OpenAI GPT-6 Astra in an UltraFast mode on Amazon Bedrock, offering a premium speed tier for latency-sensitive workloads. UltraFast promises up to 6x faster inference and throughput up to 300 tokens per second, enabling real-time coding assistants, interactive agents, and responsive customer experiences. AWS provides the underlying inference engine with controls for security, governance, and auditability.

📘 AWS Parallel Computing Service (AWS PCS) now emits scaling logs that record state transitions for individual compute nodes, such as launches, registrations, scale-downs, and failures. These logs help troubleshoot scaling issues by showing why groups didn’t reach target sizes, which launches failed for capacity reasons, and when nodes started or stopped. Delivery is opt-in and can be configured to Amazon CloudWatch Logs, Amazon S3, or Amazon Data Firehose.

⚡ Amazon Aurora Serverless now scales in larger increments, adding up to 16 ACUs within a second and scaling up to 256 ACUs as workloads demand. This launch speeds scaling to meet capacity needs and automatically scales to zero when idle, reducing costs. The enhancement is enabled by default on platform versions 3 and 4, with upgrade paths for versions 1 and 2. Check your cluster's platform version in the AWS Console or via the RDS API.

🖥️ Amazon Aurora and Amazon RDS now support R8a database instances powered by 5th generation AMD EPYC processors, offering each vCPU as a physical core for consistent per‑core performance. R8a instances deliver up to 75 Gbps network bandwidth and 60 Gbps Amazon EBS bandwidth and are built on the AWS Nitro System with sixth‑generation Nitro Cards. Supported engines include Aurora PostgreSQL/MySQL, RDS for PostgreSQL, MySQL and MariaDB. R8a instances are available in multiple US, Canada, Asia Pacific and European regions and can be launched via the RDS console or AWS CLI.

🛈 Amazon Web Services now offers in-region support for Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.5 and Claude Sonnet 5 on Amazon Bedrock in the UK (London) Region. Customers in regulated industries such as financial services, healthcare, and the public sector can perform inference while keeping data processing confined to the eu-west-2 Region. Calls to the bedrock-runtime endpoint ensure requests and processing remain within the Region. See the Bedrock User Guide for current regional model availability and the Bedrock console to get started.

🔔 Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MariaDB now supports M8a instances powered by 5th‑generation AMD EPYC processors. Each vCPU maps to a physical core for consistent per‑core performance, with up to 75 Gbps network and 60 Gbps EBS bandwidth for high I/O workloads. Built on the AWS Nitro System with sixth‑generation Nitro Cards, M8a instances are available across multiple US, Europe, and Asia Pacific regions. Provision via the RDS Console or AWS CLI and consult RDS documentation for supported engine versions and pricing.

🔒 AWS Continuum for Penetration Testing (AWS Security Agent) is now available in six additional Regions, enabling localized penetration testing for web applications and APIs. The expansion covers Asia Pacific (Seoul), Canada (Montreal), Europe (London), US East (Columbus), Europe (Paris), and Europe (Stockholm). Organizations can run testing closer to production to meet data residency and compliance needs while preserving existing Region support.

🆕 Amazon RDS for MySQL 26.7 is now available in the Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment, enabling evaluation of the MySQL 26.7 pre-release on Amazon RDS. The release follows the new YY.M calendar versioning and includes bug fixes, security patches, and features like the Change Stream Applier to improve replication apply throughput. Preview instances are retained up to 60 days, snapshots are limited to the Preview Environment, and pricing follows the US East (Ohio) Region.

🔍 AWS CloudTrail has launched Event Coverage, a console feature that displays data plane event logging coverage across accounts and organizations. It highlights which services and resource types have data event logging enabled and which do not, helping teams identify logging gaps without manual scans. The dashboard consolidates supported data event sources and lets users subscribe to data events directly to close coverage gaps quickly.

🚀 Starting today, Aurora PostgreSQL can directly query operational data alongside data stored in data lakes in Apache Iceberg and Parquet formats using your existing PostgreSQL applications and tools. You can create PostgreSQL foreign tables that reference data in Amazon S3, Amazon S3 Tables, or AWS Glue Data Catalog, and queries against those foreign tables use DuckDB’s high-performance engine embedded in PostgreSQL. The capability supports external Iceberg REST Catalog–compatible catalogs federated via AWS Glue Data Catalog, and data can be materialized into native Aurora tables for low-latency workloads. It is generally available on Aurora PostgreSQL versions 17.11, 18.6 and higher across AWS commercial and GovCloud (US) Regions at no extra charge.

🚀 Spanner Omni, the deploy-anywhere edition of Google Cloud Spanner, is now generally available to run in on-premises data centers, other clouds, or local environments. It brings Spanner's distributed SQL capabilities, multi-model features like vector search and graph, and enterprise-grade security and backup to customer-managed infrastructure. Two licensing tiers and enterprise support options are provided, while operational responsibility and some cloud-integrated features remain the customer's.