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🗂️ Amazon FSx for Lustre now supports the Intelligent-Tiering storage class in 13 additional AWS Regions across Africa, Europe, Asia Pacific, and South America. The Intelligent-Tiering class provides fully elastic, low-cost Lustre storage optimized for mixed hot/cold workloads by automatically tiering data across Frequent Access, Infrequent Access, and Archive tiers, with an optional SSD read cache for active data. It offers up to 34% better price-performance versus on-premises HDD and up to 96% lower costs for rarely accessed data compared to other managed cloud file offerings.

📊 AWS announces Cost Explorer historical data retention for accounts in billing groups. Customers using AWS Billing Conductor and Billing Transfer can map accounts to billing groups and view billing data priced at the payer or Bill-Transfer account's pro forma rates. Previously, billing group mapping restricted access to historical billing data priced at AWS billable rates. Accounts already onboarded will retain access to their historical Cost Explorer data with no additional action required.

🛠️ AWS announces that DevOps Agent now supports custom SRE agents, bring-your-own sub-agents, and headless access via MCP and A2A protocols. These features let teams automate recurring SRE workflows, extend the agent by connecting external sub-agents, and invoke DevOps Agent from familiar tools such as Kiro and Claude. Additional updates include chat enhancements, incident-skip rules, enhanced knowledge with memories and Git-managed skills, human labeling, dashboards for task quality, and availability in five new Regions.

🟢 AWS Partner Central now offers lead enrichment and prospecting, letting AWS Partners enrich AWS-sourced or partner-sourced leads with AWS-generated propensity insights and recommendations for program, funding, and sales motion eligibility. Partners can upload leads in the console or programmatically via the AWS Partner Central API. Each enriched lead returns propensity-to-buy signals, Marketplace purchase likelihood, solution-category alignment, and eligibility for programs like Partner Greenfield Program and Pioneer Credits. The feature is available to ACE-eligible Partners in the US East (N. Virginia) Region.

🚀 Amazon EC2 C8i instances are now available in the Europe (Stockholm) region. These instances use custom Intel Xeon 6 processors exclusive to AWS, offering up to 15% better price-performance and 2.5x more memory bandwidth versus prior Intel-based instances. C8i delivers up to 20% higher performance than C7i and provides larger sizes, including a new 96xlarge and two bare metal options. Purchase options include Savings Plans, On-Demand, and Spot.

🚀 Starting today, Amazon EC2 C7i instances powered by custom 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors (Sapphire Rapids) are available in the Israel (Tel Aviv) Region. C7i instances offer up to 15% better price-performance than C6i, larger instance sizes up to 48xlarge, and two bare metal sizes with built-in Intel accelerators. They support Intel AMX, and permit up to 128 EBS volumes per instance to scale data-intensive workloads.

📣 Amazon Web Services announced general availability of CloudWatch Metrics Centralization, enabling replication of CloudWatch and OpenTelemetry metrics cross-account and cross-region into a single destination account. Enterprise teams can use AWS Organizations to define centralization rules that automatically replicate metrics for unified querying, alarming, compliance, and governance. The feature supports Metrics Insights, dashboards, alarms, Metric Math, anomaly detection, Metric Streams, and PromQL and is available in multiple global AWS Regions.

🔍 Today AWS announced the general availability of Amazon CloudWatch Query Studio, a unified querying and visualization experience inside the CloudWatch console. Query Studio supports PromQL and Metrics Insights to query OpenTelemetry and AWS-vended metrics across accounts and regions from a single workspace. It offers visual query builders, multiple visualization types, dashboard integration, Grafana import, and keyboard shortcuts.

🛰️ Starting today, Amazon GameLift Servers includes free inbound and outbound network bandwidth for all instance types from generation 6 and later, covering On-Demand and Spot instances with no commitment. Customers will only be charged for Amazon GameLift Servers instance hours, simplifying cost predictability for multiplayer game hosting. The change requires no enrollment or configuration and is effective immediately for eligible fleets in supported regions, excluding China. Existing customers receive the benefit automatically.

🚀 Starting today, Amazon Lightsail is available in three additional AWS Regions: Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), South America (São Paulo), and Europe (Spain). This expansion delivers lower latency and improved performance for customers in these geographies while supporting local data residency requirements. The new Regions provide access to Lightsail's full feature set, including instances (general purpose, compute-optimized, memory-optimized), managed databases, container services, and load balancers with predictable pricing.

🚀 Amazon SageMaker AI now supports serverless customization for Nvidia Nemotron 3 Nano via supervised fine-tuning (SFT) and reinforcement fine-tuning (RFT). This open-weight 30B-parameter model can be deployed and adapted to specific domains and workflows directly within SageMaker. Serverless customization handles infrastructure and training orchestration, enabling teams to focus on data and evaluation while paying only for usage. The feature is available in US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), and Europe (Ireland), and can be launched from SageMaker Studio or via the SageMaker Python SDK.

⚙️ AWS has launched Storage optimized Amazon EC2 I7i instances in the Europe (Paris) region, powered by 5th Gen Intel Xeon processors and 3rd generation AWS Nitro SSDs. These instances deliver up to 23% better compute performance and over 10% improved price performance versus I4i, with up to 45TB NVMe storage and significant reductions in storage I/O latency and variability. I7i supports torn write prevention up to 16KB and comes in eleven sizes, including bare metal options, with up to 100Gbps network and 60Gbps EBS bandwidth.

🔒 Amazon EC2 Capacity Blocks for ML is now available in AWS GovCloud (US-West) and AWS GovCloud (US-East), enabling government and regulated-industry customers to reserve GPU capacity for machine learning workloads. The service lets customers reserve GPU instances in advance for defined durations, providing assured access to accelerated compute for pre-training, fine-tuning, rapid prototyping, and surge inference. Reservations can be made up to eight weeks ahead for durations up to six months, in clusters of one to 64 instances, and can be shared across accounts using AWS Resource Access Manager.

🔥 Amazon EC2 High Memory U7i-8TB instances (u7i-8tb.112xlarge) are now available in the AWS Europe (Paris) region. These 7th-generation U7i instances are powered by custom 4th-generation Intel Xeon Scalable (Sapphire Rapids) processors and provide 8 TiB of DDR5 memory for scaling transaction processing throughput. They deliver 448 vCPUs, up to 100 Gbps EBS and network bandwidth, ENA Express, and up to 45% better price performance versus U-1 instances. U7i instances are targeted at mission-critical in-memory databases such as SAP HANA, Oracle, and SQL Server.

🤝 Amazon Quick now integrates with Snowflake Cortex AI via the Model Context Protocol (MCP), allowing teams to query Snowflake data and documents in natural language and automate multi-step workflows within Quick. After configuring Snowflake's managed MCP server with OAuth, users can query structured data with Cortex Analyst and unstructured documents with Cortex Search. The MCP connection is available across Quick features, including Quick Chat and Flows, and the integration is live in all AWS Regions where Amazon Quick is offered.

🆕 AWS now supports Amazon EKS local clusters on first- and second-generation AWS Outposts racks that boot Amazon EC2 instances from EC2 instance store. This extends Outposts’ static stability benefits to EKS local clusters, keeping the entire Kubernetes control plane on the Outpost to meet data residency needs and reduce impact from temporary network disconnects. The updated architecture brings greater operational parity with cloud EKS, includes managed control plane responsibilities, and adds support for EKS add-ons and modern auth mechanisms.

🛠️ Amazon CloudWatch Application Signals now ranks service health on the application map and adds new infrastructure, logs, and traces tabs on the service overview page, enabling operators to triage unhealthy services and inspect compute, log snippets, and trace details in one place. These features surface runtime indicators for Amazon EKS, Amazon ECS, AWS Lambda, and Amazon EC2, and provide curated metrics with deep links to relevant monitoring tools to speed root-cause analysis. The capabilities are available in all Regions that support Application Signals.

🎯 Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition now supports PostgreSQL major version 18, starting with 18.3. This release brings community improvements to query performance and database management and adds the pg_roaringbitmap extension for fast, memory-efficient set operations on large integer collections. PostgreSQL 18 also introduces B-tree skip scans, retained optimizer statistics during major upgrades, and parallel streaming of large transactions for logical replication. Aurora 18.3 is available in all commercial AWS Regions and AWS GovCloud (US); upgrade options include RDS Blue/Green, in-place upgrades, or snapshot restores.

📣 Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (MWAA) Serverless now publishes workflow and task state change events to Amazon EventBridge, enabling event-driven automation for Airflow pipelines. Previously, teams relied on custom polling or manual monitoring; this capability lets MWAA Serverless emit events for workflow states (started, running, succeeded, failed) and task states (scheduled, succeeded, failed, up for retry). Use cases include alerting on failures, triggering downstream pipelines when upstream workflows succeed, and logging state transitions for compliance.

🗂️ Elastic Beanstalk now surfaces Amazon CloudWatch Logs directly within the environment Logs tab, letting users view and filter log groups and streams without leaving the Elastic Beanstalk console. The Logs tab lists environment-associated log groups (including those matching the aws/elasticbeanstalk//* prefix), auto-selects the most recently active stream, and offers a stream dropdown and filtering options. A "View in CloudWatch" dropdown provides direct links to the log group, log stream, or CloudWatch Logs Insights for deeper analysis. This capability is available across all Elastic Beanstalk platform branches in AWS Commercial and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions where the service is offered.