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📊 S3 Storage Lens now provides three new capabilities: application performance metrics, expanded prefix analytics across billions of prefixes, and direct export of metrics to managed S3 Tables. The performance metrics include access pattern, request origin, and object access count metrics to surface inefficient requests, cross‑Region access, and hot object reads. Enable these features in your advanced dashboard to make metrics queryable via AWS analytics services.

🚀 AWS has introduced Amazon EC2 X8aedz, a new memory-optimized instance family powered by 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors (Turin) that deliver up to 5 GHz maximum CPU frequency. X8aedz claims up to 2x higher compute performance and ~31% improved price-performance versus the prior X2iezn generation, combining high single-thread speed with a 32:1 memory-to-vCPU ratio and local NVMe storage. Instances come in eight sizes (2–96 vCPUs, 64–3,072 GiB), include two bare-metal variants, and offer up to 8 TB of local NVMe SSD. They are available now in US West (Oregon) and Asia Pacific (Tokyo) and can be purchased via On-Demand, Spot, or Savings Plans.

🚀 Amazon Web Services today announced a preview of Amazon EC2 X8i, a next-generation memory-optimized instance family built on custom Intel Xeon 6 processors. X8i offers up to 6 TB of memory—1.5× the capacity of X2i—and up to 3.4× the memory bandwidth of the previous generation. AWS reports 35% higher overall performance compared with X2i, and X8i is SAP-certified with a 46% SAPS increase for mission-critical SAP deployments. The instances target in-memory databases, large-scale databases, analytics, and EDA workloads; customers can request preview access to evaluate performance and fit.

📂 You can now attach Amazon S3 Access Points to Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP file systems so applications can access file data as if it were stored in S3. This lets a broad range of AI, ML, and analytics services—including Amazon Bedrock, SageMaker, and Glue—use your FSx file data without copying it. Create and attach access points via the Amazon FSx console, AWS CLI, or SDK; support for existing file systems will arrive in a forthcoming maintenance window. The capability is available in select AWS Regions.

🆕 Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports SQL Server 2022 Developer Edition, enabling teams to run a feature-complete, free edition of SQL Server in non-production RDS instances. The Developer Edition includes all Enterprise features for building, testing, and demonstrating applications while reducing licensing costs for development and test environments. Core RDS capabilities — automated backups, automated software updates, monitoring, and encryption — are supported on Developer Edition. The license is strictly limited to development and testing and may not be used in production or for commercial end-user scenarios.

🚀 AWS has announced general availability of Amazon EC2 P6e-GB300 UltraServers powered by the NVIDIA GB300 NVL72. The new UltraServers deliver 1.5× GPU memory and 1.5× FP4 compute (without sparsity) compared with P6e-GB200, enabling higher-context inference and improved throughput for large models. Ideal for reasoning, Agentic AI, and production inference; contact your AWS sales representative to get started.

🔧Amazon RDS for SQL Server introduces an Optimize CPU option with support for M7i and R7i instance families, lowering prices by up to 55% compared with equivalent sixth‑generation instances. Optimize CPU disables SMT on instances with two or more physical CPU cores to halve vCPU counts and associated third‑party licensing charges while preserving the same number of physical cores and near‑equivalent performance. The biggest savings appear on 2Xlarge and larger sizes and on Multi‑AZ deployments; memory‑ or I/O‑intensive workloads can be further tuned to reduce costs.

🔐 Frenetik, a Maryland cybersecurity startup, emerged from stealth with a patented approach called Deception In-Use that continuously rotates real identities and resources across Microsoft Entra (M365), AWS, Google Cloud and on-prem environments. By routing critical change details through out-of-band channels accessible only to trusted parties, defenders retain accurate visibility while attackers operate on stale intelligence and are more likely to be funneled into decoys and honeypots.

🔒 Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 and Amazon Web Services have expanded their partnership to offer a no-cost Unit 42 Incident Response Retainer in AWS Marketplace for qualified customers. The retainer provides 250 hours of initial incident response, a 2-hour response SLA and 24/7/365 access to Unit 42’s incident response team. The offering is designed to accelerate containment, enable holistic investigations across cloud and enterprise environments, and reduce procurement overhead while providing preferred pricing for proactive services.

🔧 AWS announced the preview of AWS DevOps Agent, a frontier agent designed to investigate incidents and proactively prevent outages across AWS, multicloud, and hybrid environments. The agent autonomously triages alerts, correlates telemetry, code, and deployment data, and guides teams to faster resolution to reduce MTTR. During preview it is available at no additional cost in US East (N. Virginia).

🤖AWS has introduced Amazon Nova 2, a next-generation family of foundation models now available in Amazon Bedrock. The release includes Nova 2 Lite, optimized for fast, cost-effective reasoning for everyday workloads, and Nova 2 Pro (Preview), designed for complex, multistep tasks. Both models support step-by-step reasoning, three thinking intensity levels, built-in tools such as code interpreter and web grounding, remote MCP tool support, and a one-million-token context window. Nova 2 Lite supports supervised fine-tuning on Bedrock and SageMaker; full fine-tuning is available on SageMaker. Nova 2 Pro is available in preview for Amazon Nova Forge customers with global cross-region inference.

🔒 AWS today announced the preview of AWS Security Agent, an AI-powered agent that automates security validation across the application development lifecycle. The service lets security teams define organizational requirements once and then evaluates architecture and code against those standards, offering contextual remediation guidance. For deployments, it performs context-aware penetration testing and logs API activity to CloudTrail; the preview is available in US East (N. Virginia). AWS states customer data and queries are not used to train models.

🚀 Amazon announced Nova 2 Omni, an all‑in‑one multimodal model in preview that accepts text, images, video, and speech inputs while producing text and image outputs. It offers a 1M token context window, supports 200+ languages for text and 10 for speech, and provides image generation/editing and multi‑speaker speech transcription with native reasoning. Early access is available to Nova Forge and authorized customers.

🔎 Amazon CloudWatch now provides unified data management and analytics to consolidate operational, security, and compliance data across AWS and third-party sources. The launch enables organization-wide ingestion from AWS sources such as AWS CloudTrail, Amazon VPC, and Amazon WAF, plus managed collectors for CrowdStrike, Okta, and Palo Alto Networks. Customers can use pipelines to transform and enrich logs to standard formats like OCSF and define facets for faster insights. Data can be stored in managed Amazon S3 Tables at no additional storage charge and queried natively or with any Apache Iceberg-compatible analytics tool.

🚀Amazon OpenSearch Service now offers GPU-accelerated, auto-optimized vector indexes that let teams build billion-scale vector databases in under an hour. Serverless GPU acceleration can speed index builds up to 10X while reducing indexing cost to roughly a quarter of previous expenses. Auto-optimize jobs evaluate k-NN algorithms, quantization, and engine settings against specified latency and recall targets to produce configuration recommendations without manual tuning. These capabilities support vector collections and OpenSearch 2.17+/3.1+ domains across multiple regions.

🚀 Amazon EMR Serverless now provides fully managed serverless local storage for Apache Spark workloads, removing the need to provision disk type or size per application. The service offloads intermediate operations such as shuffle to an auto-scaling, encrypted serverless storage with job-level isolation, so customers pay only for compute and memory consumed. This reduces disk-related job failures and can lower costs by up to 20%. It is generally available for EMR release 7.12 and later.

🚀 AWS announced general availability of Amazon Nova Act, a service for building and managing fleets of reliable agents that automate production UI workflows. Powered by a custom Nova 2 Lite model, Nova Act can complete repetitive browser tasks, call APIs or tools, and escalate to human supervisors when needed. Developers can combine natural language with deterministic Python, prototype in the online playground, refine scripts with the Nova Act IDE extension, and deploy to AWS quickly. Nova Act is available today in US East (N. Virginia).

🚀 AWS AI Factories are now available to deploy high-performance AWS AI infrastructure inside customer data centers, combining AWS Trainium, NVIDIA GPUs, low-latency networking, and optimized storage. The service integrates Amazon Bedrock and Amazon SageMaker to provide immediate access to foundation models without separate provider contracts. AWS manages procurement, setup, and operations while customers supply space and power, enabling isolated, sovereign deployments that accelerate AI initiatives.

🚀 Today AWS introduced Database Savings Plans, a flexible pricing model that offers up to 35% savings in exchange for a one-year commitment measured in $/hour with no upfront payment. Discounts apply automatically to eligible serverless and provisioned usage across engines, instance families, sizes, deployment options, and Regions. The offer supports Amazon Aurora, Amazon RDS, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon ElastiCache, Amazon DocumentDB, Amazon Neptune, Amazon Keyspaces, Amazon Timestream, and AWS DMS. Database Savings Plans are available now in all AWS Regions except China and can be purchased from the Billing console or via the AWS CLI.

🛡️ Amazon Web Services' AgentCore introduces preview features — Policy and Evaluations — to help teams scale agents from prototypes into production. Policy intercepts real-time tool calls via AgentCore Gateway and converts natural-language rules into Cedar for auditability and compliance without custom code. Evaluations offers 13 built-in evaluators plus custom model-based scoring, with all quality metrics surfaced in an Amazon CloudWatch dashboard to simplify continuous testing and monitoring.